"I think it likely makes them a little more secure."
"It is a 'no.' We already have our first example of what we are doing lowers compliance costs."
"No, ma'am. We are trying to lower costs for them."
"We need a budget because these are very large and powerful financial institutions who hire armies of lawyers to design financial products that can't be read by ordinary American families."
"We have reason to believe, because we have already been reaching out to service members and service-member families..."
"Well, you tell your farmers that, because of the language in this particular part of the statute, the lawyers are working on it right now."
"Oh, Congressman, you hit on a very important question. As you rightly know, it is consumer credit that we do at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau."
"No. Congressman, the statute is quite clear that we are not in the business of establishing usury laws."
"I want to say it this way: Small businesses are struggling, I understand that."
"You now have this new consumer agency, and you can do something about this."
"Of course we need to be responsible to the Congress. The Congress should look over our shoulder 24 hours a day, 7 days a week."
"I believe that Congress should treat all of the banking regulators alike and not say that the one that tries to watch out for consumers is going to be put through the political process."