Bob Bennett

We do not make money when we foreclose on customers. It is in our best interest to figure out ways to make loans perform again.

If you call an IRS agent for advice on your taxes, there is a very good chance you will get wrong advice and end up in tax court.

I think the outcry would be very, very strong. There is a huge conflict of interest here, and such an individual should not be included.

I can understand the impulse for a moratorium. I am not at all sure that a blanket moratorium as broad as this one will produce any higher degree of safety than a more targeted kind of thing.

I think the implications for this are very serious. NASA, I think, is making a mistake.

Most disturbing to me and others who share my concern about this--this is not strictly a Utah parochial issue--is the lack of evidence--it is a complete lack of evidence--of any coordination between the National Aeronautics and Space…

We will not only lose the industry, we will lose the skills that go with it.

The more dependent we become on imported oil, the more difficult many of our challenges are.

I believe that this administration has made a very serious mistake in restructuring the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

I would urge you to have conversations with whatever 'elves' within the administration you deal with, over at OMB, because I think that's where the decision was made.

the majority has chosen to focus on what it believes to be the abuse of the filibuster by the minority, but these hearings have also revealed how the Majority Leader can abuse the rules of the Senate to limit debate and amendment.

It takes 60 votes to get anything through the Senate. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

I think they are basically irrelevant.

I don't believe the current plan of the President will allow the United States... to continue to lead the world in space exploration.

But just because you have the right to do it does not mean it is the right thing to do.

It may very well be that the solution to the problems that we talk about as a dysfunctional Senate lies somewhere other than amending the filibuster rule.

the whole question of minority rights in the Senate is one of the most significant ones we can deal with, and the filibuster has changed over the years.

If I was sitting on the board of directors and you were making this pitch to the board of directors as to the direction in which you are going to take the company, I would tell you, you haven't made the sale.

the Space Shuttle that has helped the United States maintain its role as the leader in space exploration, leading to life-changing technological discoveries along the way, will be retired.

I do not dispute in any way, Mr. Chairman, the numbers that you have cited, but I do not want to leave the impression that all of the obstruction that has come as a result of the use of holds has come from the Minority side.

I find incredible when you say the demonstrated reliability of Ares is zero.

So I think the rule change that said it is a constitutional supermajority of all the Senators duly sworn is a step in the level of accountability for one's position with respect to a piece of legislation.

Yes. Norm, that is why they called it the Nuclear Option.

I do not think that is what the original filibuster rule had in mind, but it has become the norm.