"I believe our immediate attention should be to help those most in need who can be helped and are willing to help themselves."
"I believe, however, that it does so at considerable cost to the taxpayer and mainly serves as a further bailout to the very banks that helped us get into our current condition."
"Don't we need to be real clear about what our goals should be?"
"Until we have a firm understanding, Mr. Secretary, of what is driving foreclosures, I believe assistance plans will continue to be ad hoc and uninformed, for the most part."
"I am very opposed to that. This has become a well-organized Department."
"I have been an advocate for the center to try to package more of that training and take it out in increments."
"I still think it is too few. I think we should be over 20,000, but we hit that goal."
"Dr. Volcker...thought some institutions, some banks were too big to exist."
"I believe that was a term that Senator Corker used one time."
"How do you get the market to believe that what you are doing is the right thing?"
"Do you believe that the biggest challenge to our economic system today is rectifying and bringing competence and capital from the private sector, trust to the banking system?"
"Wouldn't we be better off to close some of those banks rather than continue to prop them up and let the American people continue to believe--no confidence in them?"
"this begs the question of nationalization."
"Do you believe, and I know you haven't been in the Fed that long, but do you believe that the Fed has adequately supervised our banks as a regulator, or do you believe there were problems there that w..."
"a lot of us don't believe anything is too big to fail."
"A lot of people wonder, where were the regulators in the past 5 or 6 years, including the Federal Reserve."
"The Federal Reserve has provided assistance to several large financial entities, according to their words, 'in order to ensure financial market stability.'"
"The Federal Reserve's balance sheet has more than doubled in size and presently stands at about $2 trillion."
