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

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

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

A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy.

In terms of the overall economy, we've got challenges and the big focus has got to be on recovery, on repair, and that's going to take a while.

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.

I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.