Bob Bennett: “If we ever did allow rural America to shrivel up and blow away, we would pay a very significant price for that.”

I can understand the impulse for a moratorium. I am not at all sure that a blanket moratorium as broad as this one will produce any higher degree of safety than a more targeted kind of thing.

We do not make money when we foreclose on customers. It is in our best interest to figure out ways to make loans perform again.

I think the outcry would be very, very strong. There is a huge conflict of interest here, and such an individual should not be included.

We will not only lose the industry, we will lose the skills that go with it.