Dan Webster Quotes
I found a mistake in a rule. They addressed the wrong rule number... I pointed it out, did an amendment, and everybody was happy after that.
Webster, Daniel. "Newsmakers Interview with Rep. Daniel Webster." C-SPAN, National Cable Satellite Corporation, 29 Sept. 2015.
Morgan, one of the biggest industrialists in the nation, had been running vicious monopolies and trusts at a time when government regulation was a new concept. Morgan’s response was to have one of Roosevelt’s assistants make a deal with one of his assistants. He was shocked when Attorney General Knox said, “We don’t want it fixed up. We want to stop it.” They did. It was a watershed in government corporate regulation.
Referring to the many mistakes made in the implementation and planning of the Iraq War.
Greenspan, and his huge staff of economists all completely missed predicting the Meltdown of 2008. They had the power to regulate many of the banks and other companies that got into trouble in the Great Recession. However, all the financiers and economists of the banks of America with their staffs, not only missed the predictions but recommended the disastrous course of activity that almost destroyed the nation’s economy. Only a handful of economists predicted the Meltdown. Those few were not connected with any of the banks or any of the government bank regulators which had become so much like each other as the result of the revolving door, that there was little difference in their thinking.
Daniel Alan Webster is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Florida's 11th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he first entered Congress in 2011. He previously represented Florida's 10th congressional district from 2011 to 2017 (numbered as the 8th district during his first term). Prior to his congressional service, he served 28 years in the Florida Legislature.
