RICHARD CORDRAY

It's not a long-term business model to take advantage of your consumers in ways that are not sustainable.

When the consumer is strong, the American economy will be strong, so consumer protection actually serves economic growth and economic progress.

You can get in and out of credit cards in a hurry. Not so easy to get in and out of mortgages.

Sometimes you look at the critics and say, 'Nobody else was telling me that, but you were.'

We're trying to improve the consumer financial marketplace one American at a time.

As Ohio Solicitor General and in pro bono private practice, I defended Ohio's hate crimes law. This included a brief in the Wisconsin v. Mitchell case where the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Wisconsin's hate crime law that included sexual orientation. Ohio's should include it as well, and we support it.

In Ohio, we must put fairness to people and their families first, ahead of powerful special interests.

Our job, which Congress gave us, was to protect consumers. That work needs to be done in our communities for people regardless of what happens with elections, regardless of what happens with particular people and particular offices, and that is something that I have tried to stress at my agency.

For years, leaders in Columbus have launched an ideological attack on the working men and women of Ohio and their ability to collectively bargain for good wages and safe workplace conditions. That's wrong, and it has to stop.

I don't want to, on behalf of the bureau, comment on Ohio law as opposed to Washington law as opposed to Colorado law.

Betty Sutton and I will make it a point to put state government back on the side of the middle class, not the wealthy and well-connected who have run the show at the statehouse for far too long.

We've very steadily and single-mindedly been building the bureau so that we can do the work that, quote, Congress required us to do and that the American people have every reason to expect, and deserve, that we will do.

Over the years, I think, more and more, I've come to recognize that my parents - not in a didactic or explicit way, but in a very powerful way by their example - gave me a sense that government could be a force for good.

I think that if you're going after large banks and large financial companies to try to make sure people are being treated fairly, you're going to make some enemies, and you're going to make people uncomfortable.

We must defend the rights of working people to bargain collectively for fair wages and safe working conditions.

I am pretty good at getting back people's money.

Debt collection is a market with real, persistent, and disturbing problems.

What I've learned over the years... judges are conscientious... not like lawyers, who give opinions.

It makes me mad to see people in government serving themselves at our expense.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos owes Ohio $5.3 million for campaign finance violations, and Mike DeWine's office refuses to collect the fine.

If consumers are strong, if consumers are protected, if they can trust the marketplace and feel confident that they're not being cheated here and there, then consumers can drive this economy forward.

I actually thought that the marketplace was pretty imbalanced when the consumer bureau was first created and financial institutions did not have someone looking carefully over their shoulder to look after the interest of consumers.

We pursued many actions against foreclosure rescue scammers who were reaching into the pockets of desperate people in an effort to steal what little remained as they sought to keep their homes.

Too often, borrowers who need quick cash end up trapped in loans they can't afford.

I would prefer to be known as Richard the Lionhearted.