"I apologize for being late, but I have not yet learned how to be in three places at the same time."
"I proposed the surtax on people whose families had at least a million dollars in income, because they are the people who benefited from Bush's economic policies in general."
"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."
"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 hope you give serious thought and build into your analysis the savings as well as the expenditures."
"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 withou..."
"How do you lend out $2 trillion of Federal funds through the Fed and nobody knows anything about this?"
"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."
"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."
"The amount of money is so huge that nobody can get their hands around it."