Bob Corker

The word 'democracy' never comes up.

This is incredibly unfair for the largest economy in the world to place a tremendous bias on liquidity.

I hope we will have multiple hearings on Iran.

The President did not ask for the very funds that he committed to in the 1251 that was laid out.

I think most people in the country watching what is happening believe there is a very good chance that we could end up with a military engagement with Iran in the next 12 months.

I have come to the floor to talk about a topic I spoke a little bit about yesterday. I know all the focus right now is working on a solution to some of the things going on between the House and the Senate. I know that is what people are…

I appreciate the nonanswers that I have received and I think that does speak to the difficulties of it and even though you gave me a nonanswer, I thank you for your service.

I thank the Chair for his leadership. I am here today to appeal to this body. I think the Presiding Officer, I know myself, and a whole host of folks in this body have been concerned about where the country is going. I know many of us have…

I was not a proponent of Volcker Rule. I did not think there was any reason to pursue it, but I do think there is a way to fix the Volcker Rule and move away from the prop issue and focus on at least maintaining liquidity.

You think there's a way that we can cause the Volcker Rule to be altered so that the market making components that are very valuable to these foreign Governments that are issuing debt can continue? Yes? No?

I know personally on the claw back provisions I was very involved in ensuring that those kind of things took place so I am not sure exactly what the problem is now because it seems that we kind of dealt with that during the legislative…

I think we have to be careful. You know, populism is running pretty rampant right now, and that can really damage institutions.

I would just ask that all of those who care about the safety of our financial system... that populism can drive a lot of talent out that we want to see in the financial system.

I came down today to talk about the highway bill we are on, and I want to say I appreciate the way we are dealing with each committee's portion of the bill as we go along. I know we are on the base bill at present, but before I get into…

I think every American--most every American, except for those who serve in Congress--would like to see reformed.

I appreciate your testimony, talking about the fact that the lack of knowledge about what is going to happen...

Now, why would we do that? It just makes no sense to me that everybody has gotten on this bandwagon of principal reduction.

Well, tell the farmer in west Tennessee the answer to that question.

I will tell you, if I were in your position and I had any criticism whatsoever from Congress about what you were doing, I would ask them to lay out their plan.

We just continue down this path of Government getting involved in areas, breaking rationality and creating issues.

I do not understand why people have not thought about it in that way.

But most folks in other States played by the rules.

I am personally disappointed and I hope we will begin addressing the real issues that we have here in our country in housing in a way that is fair to all Americans.

It appears that first lien holders are going to be taking hits while second lien holders are not, which is incredibly perverse.

Congress up here has not done a single thing, is totally feckless--feckless--as it relates to these issues.