Barney Frank: “The regulators are not the Salvation Army.”

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may not exercise any rulemaking, supervisory, enforcement, or any other authority including any authority to order assessments over a motor vehicle dealer that is predominantly engaged in the sale…

If you're going to dip your fingers in the Federal till, don't complain if a little democracy rubs off on them.

This is a legislative enactment that essentially says that the fact that I live in a loving committed marriage with another man is somehow a threat to other people's freedom.

We should have made it much higher, $125 billion or more, and we should have indexed it.