"I believe that the axiom holds true."
"In America today, remarkable inspiring things still take place, but sadly, they are not taking place through the auto task force or the bankruptcies of General Motors and Chrysler."
"I have got to ask the question, Why? Because their management, unlike their companies' founders, didn't rely on private enterprise and the time-tested American remedy for corporate failure, that being..."
"The same for African Americans?"
"There are two things Congress can do: Force GM to negotiate fairly or if that doesn't work, it can attain final enactment of the Automobile Dealers Economic Rights Restoration Act of 2009 which by sta..."
"This is precisely what led me, along with my good friend from Maryland Frank Kratovil, to introduce H.R. 2743, the 'Automobile Dealer Economic Rights Restoration Act of 2009,' which would require Chry..."
"It is true, and I don't think the union----"
"Yet the Congress and the American public were left in the dark as to how the task force, then led by Steven Rattner, reached its conclusion."
"But exclaiming that bankruptcies require sacrifices from all parties involved does not answer the fundamental question of whether or not parties to these bankruptcies have been treated fairly."
"One side thinks this is a war on capitalism and the other side thinks it is a surgery to try to protect against Wall Street inflicted suicide on capitalism."
"So when the taxpayers are called upon to bail out the industry to the tune of billions upon tens of billions of dollars, then the taxpayers have a right to regulate how these companies operate..."