Billionaire Warren Buffett still backs Obama
"Warren (Buffett) still does support me."
"Warren (Buffett) still does support me."
On whether he wrote a provision that allowed AIG to dole out bonuses.
"Tens of billions of dollars (from taxpayer-funded bailouts) ... flowed straight through AIG into the coffers of foreign corporations and foreign banks."
"Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, placed an amendment in the ‘stimulus’ bill that allowed for banks bailed out with taxpayer money…
"The 1908 Model T earned better gas mileage than a typical SUV sold in 2008."
AIG "said they were giving $57 million (in retention payments) to people who were being terminated."
"We had bipartisan legislation that got through the Senate" that would have prevented bonuses like AIG's "and then somehow mysteriously disappeared."
"AIG insures the pension trust of the United States Congress!"
In Japan, executives of failing companies "say 'I'm sorry' and then either do one of two things: resign or go commit suicide."
"Last week the Blue Chip Economic Indicators came out that surveys lots of private forecasters. Almost all of them are predicting a turnaround in the…
"I don't do earmarks. I've never done one. I'm not going to do one."
"In eighth grade math, we’ve fallen to ninth place."