Amy Klobuchar Quotes

You know we're going to control the insurance companies.

Obama is telling the insurance companies, as a dictator would, what they can and can't do or what they must or must not do.

The place where we don't agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance companies and whether they should be allowed to run wild. We believe there should be some restraint; some on the other side don't think so.

It took a little over a decade to build a coalition strong enough to beat the insurance companies, but in 1990, then Senator Tom Daschle and I passed a law regulating the private market for supplemental Medicare insurance policies.

Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line.

I'm a former insurance regulator. What companies really want and need is some clarity about what the rules are.

We took the insurance companies out of the driver's seat.

To protect our country's economic future and the health and well being of all Americans, we must find a way to rein in out-of-control costs, provide quality, affordable health care choices to all, and make outrageous insurance industry abuses a thing of the past.

Everybody you talk to about insurance says the insurance market has become a lot more vibrant as a result of lifting, allowing the foreign direct investment.

Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do.

The elimination of unnecessary collateral requirements on foreign insurers and reinsurers is not only beneficial for the individual companies, but for the industry as a whole.

The policy is one thing, but it's dictated by what the process is.

The job of government must be to provide the rules and the climate that will let the system work.

The main product of government is laws.

The insurance industry has proven by expenditure ... and its legions of pin-striped lawyers, that it is capable of tying up the will of the people.

The insurance companies have control of the legislature. They get what they want and stop what they don’t.

We want to be sure that it is more profitable to play by the rules than it is to game the system.

If the large banks can do this without breaking the rules, then the rules should be revamped.

Fannie Mae may have conformed to the rules but the rules didn’t conform to reality. A major bank or financial institution could meet every single regulatory requirement yet still be at the risk of collapse.

No rules will be strong enough to prevent every abuse, yet good, strong regulations can stop the worst of it.

If we don’t enforce the regulations we have, these conversations are useless.

Repealing rules therefore requires federal agencies to explain why the factual and scientific bases for the predicted benefits of their rules were wrong or no longer adequate to justify those rules.

I have been trying to understand the regulators.

Setting regulatory certainty is very important for bitcoin. I'm opposed to the regulations, but the bitcoin businesses need to know the rules of the game in order to move ahead.

In general, we believe in regulation - just as long as it is fair and balanced.