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.

Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.

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.

Derivatives are a huge, complex issue.

This nation is on a course where if we don't do something about it, get federal situation, the fiscal policy [under control], we're Greece. We're a banana republic. Our status as a nation is threatened by what we’ve got coming at us in the area of deficit and debt. And it’s only a few more years, at the most, that we have to work with here before the market says, ‘Sorry, your currency is something we can not continue to defend.’

I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system.