Bob Corker actually said...

"I think you may be the overall architect, if you will, of much of what has been put forth as it relates to regulatory changes."

"I think the regulators--and we have had them into our office numbers of times--I think they are helping, as they always do, create self-fulfilling prophecy."

"Is there a way for the Federal Government to be involved in hedging that risk for you and yet not taking ownership through these GSEs of the portfolios themselves?"

"So the regionals upstream from you that typically would have provided liquidity... those folks... that has gone away for you?"