"the notion that the greatest Nation in the world with the dislocation in Europe, with China slowing down, with India's economy almost grinding to about 4 percent growth, with countries like Turkey and Brazil that we saw as growing, with the uncertainty that we see--and I will acknowledge I have been..."
"We, candidly, ought to all get fired if we don't raise this debt limit."
"it is stunning to me that anybody that would claim economic expertise would say that messing with the full faith and credit of the United States of America is a responsible action."
"Clearly we needed to bring down the deficits. We needed to get the deficits down at least to stabilize the debt-to-GDP ratio."
"I come here unreservedly endorsing Suzanne Spaulding to this Committee for her, I think, very appropriate nomination"
"there are way too many positions unfilled at this point"
"Right now it is 100 percent on the taxpayers, no private capital at risk."
"We, in effect, have while potentially artificially low mortgage rates at this point, we clearly have all taxpayer exposure."
"I actually think there is a lot more transparency and a lot better ability to audit than we had in the past."
"I would argue that the way S. 1217 has tried to separate out those goals... actually make sense."
"I think there is enormous, enormous opportunity to use this new tool for equity crowdfunding that can really marry together in a remarkable way."