I hope that at some point we will have the ability to affect what is getting ready to happen in TARP.

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

I wish we would just talk about a carbon tax, 100 percent of which would be returned to the American people.

there really wasn't the transparency and purity there that I think would be most beneficial

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 President Gore has advocated, and that…

I know that most people around our country look at the banking institutions and they are concerned about whether they have deposit insurance.

I came back to this hearing in large part just to pay respect for those of you who testified and for putting a human face on this tragedy.

What doesn't really meet the eye, unless they focus on it is, candidly, a lot of our foreign relations efforts are hampered sometimes by various interest groups here in Washington that basically keep us from doing things that make common…

I hope that you will help restore integrity, if you will, so that, look, if we need moneys for microloans...

I think there is a bully-pulpit side that elected officials and appointed officials have to undertake.

I thought Senator Lugar's comments about energy were dead-on.

Senator Clinton, when she was here--now Secretary--mentioned that she was willing, during the first 6 months of her time, to really look at foreign assistance, to look at this spaghetti that's been talked about, and really narrow it down…