I think the average person would think it is incomprehensible, again--of course, that is the word we keep using about this whole financial disaster--that trillions of dollars are being lent out without transparency or accountability.

In other words, some people became incredibly rich, and then when things got bad, it is the average Joe who has to bail them out.

The criticism, Mr. Chairman, has been that it is pretty easy, if my bill goes from $2 billion to $8 billion, we are spending $6 billion.

Don't you think we have a right to know a little bit more than these banks are telling us?

I just don't understand why we are not moving forward.

The recklessness, the greed, I suspect the illegal behavior of maybe a few hundred, a few thousand people has impacted and destroyed the lives of millions of people in this country.

If an institution is too big to fail, then an institution is too big to exist.

Will we know who received the money?

For many years now, we have been talking about global warming, we have been talking about energy independence, but I think for the first time in history, you guys have walked the walk.

Do you believe that Wall Street leaders engaged in illegal behavior and that some of them should end up behind bars in the coming years?

We have put as taxpayers $10 billion to bail him out, and we have no say about whether or not he should stay on the job?

we are going to break them up

At a time when the taxpayers of this country are providing hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out Wall Street.

The American people have no confidence in Wall Street.

these wealthiest 400 Americans now pay a lower tax rate, lower effective tax rate than most police officers, teachers, nurses, and people in the middle class.

Why should we put $3 trillion more into an institution which has been corrupt, dishonest, reckless, immoral?

We are the only Nation in the industrialized world not to guarantee health care for all people.

I apologize for being late, but I have not yet learned how to be in three places at the same time.

The amount of money is so huge that nobody can get their hands around it.

But don't you think it is a little bit weird and a little bit undemocratic that the taxpayers of this country are providing help--maybe it is good, maybe it is bad, maybe it is right.

But if we do something----

Will you work with some of us... to do away with the donut hole?

Do you think, by the way, and I know that is out of the jurisdiction of this committee and maybe it is in the Health and Education Committee, that we might want to take a look at reconfiguring how we determine real unemployment in America?

Say a word about income and wealth and equality. Can you have a sustainable strong economy when so few have so much and so many have so little?

we are the only major country on earth without a national health care program.