"I think it is because we believe that within the governmental process and the electoral process, there are right reasons for those who hold public office to make decisions, and there are wrong reasons."
"I think it wise to include the word `reasonable' to ensure that legislatures do not prescribe limits that are so low that incumbents have an unfair advantage or that interfere with the freedom of the ..."
"The other is the wall we have built brick by brick in statute over a century to separate plutocratic money from democratic politics."
"So what we have done is we have converted every corporate treasury in the country into a potential political slush fund."
"The thing that I want us to focus on here is that there is a free market ideology which is animating the Justices on the Court."
"A one-size-fits-all approach is not going to work here."
"the work has involved a lot regarding financial reform. And, as you know, Dodd-Frank is a comprehensive statute with many provisions."
"You are exactly dead-on correct that insurance companies have a very different set of asset liability structures than do banks."
"the lessons were many. I have served in both of those capacities during the time of really great financial crisis in our country."
"The data show this."
"I think our economy is doing better than it was certainly in the dark days of the crisis."