Richard Cordray

I don't think that we should be in the business of distinguishing between different kinds of economic activities that are legal merely because someone might favor or disfavor one or another.

If there were a basis for doing so, I would do so. But I am not going to scapegoat people just to satisfy you or anyone else.

I try to treat my employees the same way we will treat financial institutions--commend them on things they do well, and criticize them on things they don't do well, and treat them fairly based on the facts.

We are listening. If you have already come forward to share your concerns, know that you are not alone.

Anything less than that is an abdication of the Director's responsibility to the Bureau and its employees.

Student loans are an enormous problem. We happen to have some great people at the Bureau working on them.

I don't believe in a scorched-earth approach.

Through fair rules, consistent oversight, appropriate enforcement of the law, and broad-based consumer engagement, the Bureau is helping to restore American families' trust in consumer financial markets.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the Nation's first Federal agency with the sole focus of protecting consumers in the financial marketplace.

Military families make enormous sacrifices for our Nation and deserve to be protected from those who would take advantage of them.

We must all hang together or, most assuredly, we will hang separately.

The notion that we are somehow going to take information and use it for political campaigns is deeply offensive.