Bob Bennett

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.

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.

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.

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

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…

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

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.

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

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

I think they are basically irrelevant.

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.

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

The ability to obstruct is not unanimously and solely part of the United States Senate.

I do not think that that is a violation of anything the founders had in mind, and I do think that is something that a member of the House could never, ever do.

If we did away with the dual track... then you do have the 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,' but the Senate cannot function.

This Administration performed something--that I thought was absolutely egregious and outrageous, and the only way I could demonstrate my concern about that was to put a hold on a nomination.

I wish this were a college seminar where we could get more deeply into all of the issues that you raise.

I do not use holds as a regular device. Very, very seldom, do I put a hold on any nomination, and I always do it publically.

Do you know who is holding him? It is not a secret hold. All right. It is Senator Feingold and Senator McCain.

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.

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

We should be very, very careful as we proceed in these waters because we can mess things up pretty badly.