Asking the White House to support more government intervention was "like asking me to judge the Miss America contest — if your heart's not in it, you don't do a very good job."
May 13, 2008; New York Times
"A year ago, we were being told, you have to deregulate more. Now, we are going to have to save capitalism from the capitalists."
As quoted in the Boston Globe article, "A Government Cure to the Sliding Economy"