"Whatever happens anywhere else doesn't change our need to make sure that we help protect consumers."
"the great work that has been done at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been done not because of but in spite of opposition."
"The truth is, Mr. Cordray, that if you eliminated the work on the building, the renovation process today, it would not end the argument, the opposition to the CFPB."
"We have reached a point in time where we have to take the axe of truth and slam it into the tree of circumstance and let the chips fall where they may."
"The truth is we spent $621 million on a visitors center, a congressional visitors center. It cost $621 million."
"The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is here. If we did not have it, we would be trying to create it."
"I am committed to getting to the bottom of the allegations of discrimination. I believe that discrimination is abhorrent and that it must be eradicated."
"I have learned that until you hear both sides of a story, you should not draw conclusions."
"I am very much concerned about overreach."
"Let's get it on. So Mr. Chairman, let's get it on. Let's get to the bottom of it, and let's not let this be the last time that this committee embraces the notion that we are going to deal with invidio..."
"My district in Texas is a very urban district in Houston and has one of the highest rates of uninsured people."