"I understand it's one factor, but can we both stipulate it's a very helpful factor?"
"As everyone in this room knows, in late 2008 a financial crisis threatened to bring the worldwide economy to its knees."
"we are concerned about the financial system. We're concerned that no institution should be able to present significant risk to the financial system."
"the market clearly perceives that there is a too big to fail guarantee, and the market is rating Citi higher because of that."
"It is really three different kinds of businesses combined: a commercial bank, an investment bank, and an insurance company."
"What does 'healthy' mean now that it didn't mean on October 14, 2008?"
"We have to have $700 billion or the economy will fail."
"The March 4 hearing of the Congressional Oversight Panel will come to order."
"Can I shrink that up? It's not all U.S. businesses."
"I think it would be hard to make the case that we can see some date in the immediate future when Citi will not be too big to fail."
"Citi continues to pose significant systemic risk. In fact, Citi is often cited as the poster child for 'too big to fail.'"