Bill Foster: “I am a big fan of how the flexibility of these authorities have been used.”

I guess when things are going well, as they currently are, it is all of our duties to look around the curve and see the risks that keep you up at night.

If you conclude, as you are actively studying it, that you need more visibility into certain areas of, particularly nonbank things that may be parts of the chain of contagion, please let us know, because it is our job to avoid the next…

This made the discharge petition much more effective at its intended purpose, which is sort of to operate as a safety valve against, you know, the Speaker's rather dictatorial power.

I think it is my personal goal to die before we have another financial crisis, and then I will be doing my job well.