I don't see anything in here that says I have to run a Yelp for financial services sponsored by the Federal Government.

I don't think your department should exist. I would abolish it tomorrow if I could.

It is not appropriate for any government entity to push the envelope when it comes into conflict with our citizens.

Good government should not be a partisan exercise.

Mitch Daniels, the Governor of Indiana, used to say we are going to hit the bad actors with a sledgehammer but we are going to enable and empower the good actors to serve more Hoosiers and more Americans.

The Director has a kind of absolute power which would frighten most of us.

We assumed for the sake of doing the budget that the tax plan is deficit neutral...

Our vision is to ensure that we can pay off our debt and deal with our trillion-dollar deficits in the years ahead.

The deliberative process within the executive branch will continue to play out in an iterative fashion.

long-term workforce reductions.

I do not comment on how OIRA functions.

I am open-minded to other resolutions. I am not trying to beat up on Nevada.

I am not in the business of quashing information. I want as much information as I can get.

I do not know how often executive agencies come to you and say, 'Please, please, give me more IG oversight.'

We do not have the ability to make law. That is not what we are supposed to do in the executive branch.

I think there is an appropriate Federal role in protecting consumers. That does not mean that you have to do it through the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.

I think he tried to make the insinuation that we were not enforcing the UDAAP statute. That is not true.

Please put the Bureau on appropriations. Seriously.