Richard Cordray: “Look, I understand that you want to make a speech and I appreciate that, but there is no comparison between the NSA and…”

I think Congress legislated that limitation to protect service members against being exploited while they are trying to protect and defend our country.

$11 billion turned back into the economy, in the hands of ordinary working people, is pretty good.

If there were a basis for doing so, I would do so. But I am not going to scapegoat people just to satisfy you or anyone else.

the irresponsible lending that precipitated the crisis and blew up the mortgage market and blew up the economy pushed most lending now to GSEs and eliminated, destroyed the secondary financing market, which has not yet recovered.