My advice is to treat [credit cards] like what they are: little plastic grenades that must be handled very carefully.

President Obama believes in a level playing field.

Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.

President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science and in the future, so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big, and the kid after that, and the kid after that. That's what president Obama believes.

It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.

I don't like credit cards. They make overspending very easy. They can make life a lot more complex and stressful.

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