"There is a perception of fairness issue that is terribly important."
"I think that Title VII of Dodd-Frank is one of the signal achievements of that legislation."
"Last Congress, Congressmen Himes and Garrett introduced bipartisan legislation (H.R. 3283) that would provide clarity on this issue."
"I suspect that when the history books are written, we will look at the twin engines of monetary and fiscal policy in this country and you will emerge as somebody who acted wisely and in good faith."
"So there is really no country that has pursued the kind of austerity policies that we have heard some in this institution call for that have experienced economic growth or a reduction in the debt to t..."
"Of all the vast causes in the web of the difficulties that brought down the economy in 2008, no area, I think, is more complex than the areas that you have been charged to oversee, derivatives; not Fa..."
"I salute you and compliment you for really working hard around something that is enormously challenging in the face of criticism."
"The criticism forgets when words like 'tsunami' are bantered about, what kind of tsunami hit America households in 2008 and 2009."
"A crisis, as we all know, put 8 million people out of work, partly due to the unregulated swaps market."
"This fulfills the President's commitment at the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh in 2009 to have that in place be the end of 2012."
"As Chairman Bachus said, if I may quote you, you want to make it operational, sync together and function."
"At the core of what we are talking about is protecting American investors from risky securities."