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

I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.

What I've said repeatedly is, 'I think the auto industry is a very important industry.'

A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles.

One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.

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.

There's a lot of things we could do better.