Political Quotes

Barney Frank

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Jul 22, 2014

Republicans immersed themselves in an aggressive unrelenting campaign to repeal, weaken, and pressure regulators.

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Jul 22, 2014

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is up and running, already returning $4.6 billion to 15 million consumers.

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Jul 22, 2014

Dodd-Frank... provided oversight to Wall Street, gave regulators the tools to end the era of too-big-to-fail entities.

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Jul 22, 2014

I hope to hear you remind my Republican colleagues about just how close to the brink we came in 2008.

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Jul 22, 2014

No, absolutely not. I agree with them that it would be a mistake.

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Jul 22, 2014

With regard to asset managers, to clarify, I don't think as a general rule they should be. AIG could have, should have been.

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Jul 22, 2014

I don't think that--if that is your major--if that is all you do is asset management or sell life insurance, I don't think you should be a SIFI.

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Jul 22, 2014

My biggest problem with the regulators, frankly, is they are equating the two kinds of mortgages.

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Jul 22, 2014

I do think that the complexity issue of the Volcker Rule and the push-outs help.

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Jul 22, 2014

I do think there is room for subtlety in that, but I don't think Glass-Steagall does it.

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Jul 22, 2014

The incentive became to make a quantity of loans and not quality.

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