Richard Cordray

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

“We have to tighten our gun laws and keep guns out of the hands of criminals, the mentally ill, and domestic abusers.”

“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.”

“Reasonable regulations are essential to protect consumers from harmful practices and ensure that consumer financial markets operate in a fair, transparent, competitive manner.”

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

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

“I'm low key at times and really learning as a political figure to give more - show more of myself and be less buttoned down, which I was when I was a lawyer and I was when I was a federal regulator.”

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

“I would prefer to be known as Richard the Lionhearted.”

“As governor, I'll reverse cuts to the Local Government Fund and will work cooperatively with communities across the state to combat the challenges they face.”

“In consumer protection, you can say it hurts business; that is, it makes them comply with the law, which is actually what we want them to do, but it helps consumers.”

“My job is to take the law as it's given to me and enforce it and implement it faithfully.”

“I'm not going to stand by and ignore things that I think are important to talk about.”

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

“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.”

“Our young people should not be put at risk and subject to unscientific and harmful actions such as 'conversion therapy.'”

“Mike DeWine has been a dismal failure as Ohio's top cop.”

“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 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.”

“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.”