If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.

This country isn't working for working people. It's working only for people at the top. That's not the American dream. That's the American nightmare.

A lot of people think that regulations bring higher costs, but regulation is also about making sure that someone doesn't get to beat out the competition because they're dumping filth in the river or spewing poisons in the air.

I want to be blunt: We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work, and access to birth control, in 2012. These issues were resolved years ago - until the Republicans brought them back.

Donald Trump is a person who is an insecure money-grubber who cares about nothing but himself.

The bankers might not have said it in so many words, but gradually their strategy emerged: Target families who were already in a little trouble, lend them more money, get them entangled in high fees and astronomical interest rates, and then block the doors to the bankruptcy exit if they really got in over their heads.

Our number one responsibility is to protect Americans from terrorism, that’s our job, so being tough on terrorism is enormously important.