"A lot of people have said that had that not occurred, then short sellers would not have been able to manipulate the market"
"I think we do need to look at whether the uptick rule ought to be reinstituted, and that is one of the things that I would be committed to doing very quickly."
"There has been a lot of comment, I guess, that the SEC is a revolving door."
"I think a lot of times, our regulators end up sort of figuring out the problem after it occurs"
"I want to welcome Senator Warner. I think there is nobody that has come to the Senate with greater credentials and I certainly look forward to working with him."
"At the end of the day, you want to have the very best and brightest people in your organization..."
"Instead of on the front end, it is on the tail end and actually can make it worse"
"It is as if once we solve the waste issue, then we can pursue nuclear again."
"Let us move ahead. We have 104 plants today. We probably need 300. Let us move on."
"Of course if you do that, in essence we're raising taxes on Americans directly. We certainly should state that."
"the simple way of doing it would be to make sure that we either through cap and trade with 100 percent auctions, no offsets, return 100 percent of that money to the American public."