"I urge that you make a favorable consideration of this nomination as quickly as you can."
"Chicago-style, back room buyouts at the expense of the American taxpayers."
"Chicago-style backroom buy-offs, at the expense of the American taxpayers."
"I hope you really--and Lanny, I hope you guys in the Justice Department will really look at this too, because I know too many companies that I think have been abused because of negative short selling."
"I think short selling may be valuable. I don't think that negative short selling that's abusive is valuable. I think it's destructive."
"Mr. Chairman, I want to thank you for your energetic leadership in this area. I want to thank the three of you for the work that you do."
"Look, I don't think it's the right thing to allow people to negatively short sell, especially when they do it to a company and knock its stock way down deliberately."
"Regulation SHO--do you think Regulation SHO has really worked that well?"
"I'm very concerned about this abusive short selling approach."
"I would not exactly characterize these prosecutions as 'successes.'"
"I believe that number is probably closer to 50 than it is the 195 that has been bandied about."