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...right in the period where the sausage is being made. I clearly believe we are going to get it done this week; we need to get it done this week. And I believe we're going to get a bill that works and a clean bill. It certainly won't be exactly what we asked for, it never is. But it's got to be sufficient...
...this is a situation where as Ben [Bernanke], Tim [Geithner] and I had talked for months about, there might be a need to do something like this. We discussed the various plans. We've never seen anything like it. There's no model for anything that's been done in the past that would work here...
...understands markets. And Ben is, although he's got an academic background, very pragmatic, intellectually curious, a courageous guy. And he has-these steps we've taken have been with the Fed authorities, we don't have the authorities here to do some of the things we've done...
...this plan goes through, there's a lot more work to be done after that, figuring out how to do the asset sales. But also, figuring out how to fix the system so this doesn't happen again. Those two are going to be here after January...
They'll have a big role, but I think the next administration, the next Congress-there's so much that needs to be done, so much work. We have a regulatory system some people want to say there's too little regulation. It's not that, it's just outdated, outmoded, ineffective, the architecture was put in place in a different era and it hasn't kept pace with the evolving financial markets...