Political Quotes

Jason Chaffetz

The Public Record

Jul 17, 2012

Our job, role and responsibility is to provide some oversight and to try to fix the problem.

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Jul 4, 2012

It would be as if I went to interview the head of Countrywide and I spent the first 30 minutes of the interview or before the cameras are rolling complaining about my personal mortgage to the guy and then get directed to some program. I…

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Jul 4, 2012

Well, there was no quid pro quo. We could not directly tie somebody's vote directly to getting this benefit as the report points out.

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Jul 4, 2012

It doesn't look right, it doesn't smell right because it wasn't right, Anderson.

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Jul 4, 2012

It does, particularly when you're on the committees that are charged with maybe tightening up the rules and regulations, because we were dealing with all these bad loans and whatnot.

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Jul 4, 2012

It was wrong, it doesn't look right, it doesn't smell right because it wasn't right, Anderson.

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Jul 4, 2012

I think there's still some outstanding issues. But it was wrong, it doesn't look right, it doesn't smell right because it wasn't right.

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Jul 4, 2012

Well, as you said, it's very difficult to legislate common sense.

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Jul 4, 2012

Well, the Ethics Committee in general is fairly impotent. Usually, it's -- the voters have to deal with this and make these types of decisions.

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