Quotes from Richard Cordray

Our main concern is that demand for credit be fulfilled in ways that are actually beneficial to consumers and not harmful to them.

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

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.

What I feel is that we need an independent consumer watchdog. You have regular people who have problems with big financial companies. How do they get relief? And you need somebody who's gonna stand on their side and level the playing field for them.

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

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

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.

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

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

My job at the CFPB, as President Obama told me when he interviewed me, was to stand on the side of people in the financial marketplace and see that they were treated fairly.

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

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.

I have always adopted nondiscriminatory policies toward the LGBTQ community in my public offices in local and state government.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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