You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation.
I don’t rule out anything in my future.
I’ve always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I’m willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we’ll have to-in order to increase another place, I’m willing to do that.
Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic.
I think it is important that we all try and be green where it is possible; an awareness of the world around us can never be a bad thing.
Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have a major stimulus initiative because the only group with liquidity is the federal government.
If we don’t get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy.
You can’t make a representation and then claim you didn’t make it. You know, it just shouldn’t work that way.
Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks.
The president deserves someone who can block for his policies.
Social Security was always supposed to be basically in theory an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.
Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.
I think I could have worked for the Clinton administration.
I think, like everybody else in New Hampshire, when I pull up to fill up my car and I pay $50, I get upset. And I’m wondering if these prices are legitimate.
I don’t think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system.
There are people who wish to do us harm in the most heinous way. They want to kill Americans simply because they are Americans. They wish to destroy our culture and Nation because they don’t like our freedoms, they don’t like the fact that we are prosperous.
Elections have consequences.
Derivatives are a huge, complex issue.
We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.
The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can’t afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be.