Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion.

It's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation.

It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger.

I understand how important the automakers are to America. And I understand a bankruptcy; a failure in that industry wouldn't be a good thing. It's something we should avoid.

I have relied on prayer for health care all of my life.

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

I've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.'