"I would hope that, with all the troubles that our country has right now, that, instead of creating this divisive picking of winners and losers, we would, instead, focus on something that will unite our country."
"I have no idea why we would take this transference-of-wealth component out that--we have many environmentalists in our State."
"I hope that at some point we will have the ability to affect what is getting ready to happen in TARP."
"Unless we are marking the bills as they go over, and I know they are not, I know the money is--the money is fungible."
"I think the big, the 90 percent issue is that many of these banks know because of GAAP accounting on their accrual loans they haven't taken losses that they know are coming."
"I am actually far more concerned about--I don't think we ought to have outside influences."
"I do think that we can get in trouble sometimes by trying to make a program that we are working on better instead of just facing the facts."
"Thank you for having a very timely hearing. I appreciate it."
"I hope that we, in the Senate, will, instead of concocting some Rube Goldberg mechanism that basically disguises what we're doing from the American public, will do exactly the kind of thing that Vice ..."
"I wish we would just talk about a carbon tax, 100 percent of which would be returned to the American people."
"my goal in this debate is to make sure that, as we move along this road to Copenhagen, that we also focus on things like energy security"