I have never been opposed to earmarks.

You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation.

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

At least Obama was half-way honest about how much he was going to spend on health care. He had it at $600 billion. And the real number... is $1.2 trillion.

The president deserves someone who can block for his policies.

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks.