Brad Sherman

“The purpose of crypto is to help tax evaders and help terrorists, and those who want to traffic in drugs, etc.”

“The idea that you're going to use crypto to prevent the rich from hiding their money from taxation is a joke.”

“The king of all Ponzi schemes is the Madoff scheme. And what he did was take new money and give it to old investors. Crypto does that.”

“We have a number of crypto-bros who are spending a lot of money on lobbying and campaign contributions... they want to be able to make billions of dollars.”

“Cryptocurrency is a crock. It is a cult. It is an inflationary, fiat currency, and we should ban it.”

“The single most important thing we can do for the U.S. economy is to have a robust manufacturing sector.”

“An awful lot of our international power comes from the fact that the U.S. dollar is the standard unit of international finance and transactions.”

“We've tried to have bank regulation for 3500 years... since the code of Hammurabi. We are trying to do it with crypto.”

“The big problem is not the Maxwells, it's the Epsteins. It is the billionaire pedophiles who are able to go on for decade after decade.”

“Every time we vote on a trade agreement, we have the same debate. The proponents say it will create jobs, and the opponents say it will cost jobs. Both are right.”