Mary L. Schapiro: “We cannot turn our back on them, and we should not turn our back on them.”

The $1.4 billion that we are requesting will allow us to adequately staff the SEC to fulfill our core mission of protecting investors.

It is a great question. And I will tell you that I think--and I do not mean to sound Pollyannaish about this, but that the culture of the agency was maybe submerged a little bit over the last several years, but there is tremendous…

I do believe that we cannot suffer under the too-big-to-fail doctrine as an economy for very much longer.

Absolutely not, and I put out a statement to try and make that quite clear that we do not time our enforcement actions by the legislative calendar.