Many of these people are sophisticated business people for whom markets have reversed... They don't need to know how to balance a checkbook.

There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people.

Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buying oil tankers. This is not a financial system that has calmed down and is there to serve the American people.

I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart people, who were hardworking people - God, nobody on this Earth worked harder than my mom and dad - and they had very little.

You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs.

I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.