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1. Mike DeWine has been a dismal failure as Ohio’s top cop.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. When the consumer is strong, the American economy will be strong, so consumer protection actually serves economic growth and economic progress.
5. It makes me mad to see people in government serving themselves at our expense.
6. 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.
7. In Ohio, we must put fairness to people and their families first, ahead of powerful special interests.
8. 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.
9. As governor, I would gladly sign legislation to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity/expression. Other states have led on these issues, and I firmly believe that Ohio must provide an inclusive, welcoming, and tolerant environment that is free of harassment and discrimination for everyone.
10. Too often, borrowers who need quick cash end up trapped in loans they can’t afford.
11. I don’t want to, on behalf of the bureau, comment on Ohio law as opposed to Washington law as opposed to Colorado law.
12. I would prefer to be known as Richard the Lionhearted.
13. Sometimes you look at the critics and say, ‘Nobody else was telling me that, but you were.’
14. It’s easier at times to pick at what someone else does.
15. We have to tighten our gun laws and keep guns out of the hands of criminals, the mentally ill, and domestic abusers.
16. You can get in and out of credit cards in a hurry. Not so easy to get in and out of mortgages.
17. 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.
18. I’d be the first to say that cybersecurity is a difficult and challenging matter.
19. 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.
20. 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.