"For several months now, I have been calling for us to rethink, and I do think we need to rethink, on how banking in the Community Reinvestment Act, CRA, should be regulated because much has changed over the last 40 years since this law was initially enacted."
"I would admit that there are no perfect bills and we can make improvements to all bills, including Dodd-Frank."
"I am really disappointed that we have been so divided that we will end up accomplishing here nothing at all."
"I think that is a direction that we still need to move in, and I think it is tremendously important."
"To cast off and say that we shouldn't talk to one country or another just does not make sense in this day and age."
"We have got to figure this out. Russia is one of them. Turkey is the other."
"I consider myself a multilateralist, and I believe that diplomacy is the best way to try to resolve things."
"the American public really doesn't understand the significance and the importance of the work that you do"
"It wasn't the United States that invaded Eastern Ukraine. It wasn't the United States that, you know, when they talk about Georgia and other countries in the region."
"But the new Ukrainian Government will never be able to meet the rightful demands of its citizens without the West's economic and political support."
"Yes, the reform of the economy must be done by the Ukrainians themselves following successive governments' failure to reform."