"I sincerely hope you begin work on a corporate political spending disclosure rule."
"I hope we can count on you and your team for additional assistance when needed as they make more requests."
"The Securities and Exchange Commission is an independent agency. That is the way we want it to be."
"Unfortunately, when pressed to do further analysis on the effectiveness of our capital and liquidity rules, our banking regulators have balked."
"We only need to look at U.S. economic history to see how thinly capitalized banks have . . . made our financial system vulnerable to unanticipated economic shocks and how a crisis in the banking syste..."
"Unfortunately, too many of the efforts we see in Congress right now are intended to undermine and roll back regulation--ultimately putting Americans back at risk."
"The financial crisis has had a real and deep impact on working families."
"For years, I have urged regulators to implement strong capital requirements. I believe they are essential for a safe and sound banking system and also to avoid taxpayer bailouts."
"We also need stronger, simpler rules that cannot be gamed by Wall Street economists or watered down by Wall Street lobbying."
"Our job is to make sure that if Iran rejects comprehensive reforms, that it has no one to blame for its economic troubles other than itself."
"There is already a growing belief that this Administration has little interest in preserving the tools it would need to reimpose sanctions, should Iran violate the terms of the deal."