Peter Welch actually said...

"One of the things that we have learned in this entire catastrophe of the financial meltdown is that most of the things that were done that are truly outrageous and harmful to taxpayers and our economy..."

"There has been a premise in corporate America that the more you are paid, the more you are worth."

"if we are going to restore some sense of fairness that the American taxpayer needs, do you think that we have to address such transfers where the goal of the taxpayer bailout was to revive the financi..."

"Trying to figure out what is the 'right level of compensation' ultimately is an arbitrary decision."