Richard Cordray: “anything that is attempting or seeking to compromise our independence will make it harder for us to do our job.”

I think that enforcing the law fairly promotes economic freedom.

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

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.

Look, I understand that you want to make a speech and I appreciate that, but there is no comparison between the NSA and the CFPB.