Top 33 Richard Cordray Quotes

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We pursued many actions against foreclosure rescue scam

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.
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When the consumer is strong, the American economy will be strong, so consumer protection actually serves economic growth and economic progress.
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It’s not a long-term business model to take advantage of your consumers in ways that are not sustainable.
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Sometimes you look at the critics and say, ‘Nobody else was telling me that, but you were.’
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I’m not going to stand by and ignore things that I think are important to talk about.
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I know from my own experience that lawsuits can be a very slow, wasteful, and needlessly acrimonious way to resolve a problem.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It’s easier at times to pick at what someone else does.
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We’re trying to improve the consumer financial marketplace one American at a time.
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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.
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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.
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Governor Kasich has done some things that I applaud and have supported and spoken out in favor of, such as Medicaid expansion.
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In Ohio, we must put fairness to people and their families first, ahead of powerful special interests.
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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.
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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.
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Our young people should not be put at risk and subject to unscientific and harmful actions such as ‘conversion therapy.’
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I will build on some of the things Governor Kasich has done where I think he has been effective for Ohioans, and I think there’s number of areas where he has been.
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We must defend the rights of working people to bargain collectively for fair wages and safe working conditions.
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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.
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We marked a milestone for consumer empowerment when we began to publish consumer complaint narratives which allow people to share in their own words their experiences in the consumer financial marketplace.
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos owes Ohio $5.3 million for campaign finance violations, and Mike DeWine’s office refuses to collect the fine.
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Too often, borrowers who need quick cash end up trapped in loans they can’t afford.
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We have to tighten our gun laws and keep guns out of the hands of criminals, the mentally ill, and domestic abusers.
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Mike DeWine has been a dismal failure as Ohio’s top cop.
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It makes me mad to see people in government serving themselves at our expense.
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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.
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Debt collection is a market with real, persistent, and disturbing problems.
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I am pretty good at getting back people’s money.
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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.
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In consumer protection, you can say it hurts business;

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.
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We’re running in a primary election. What do you do? You go out and seek support. When you’re getting support, that’s good. When you’re not getting support, that’s bad.
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