We must respect women's personal decisions about their health, not dictate to them.
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.
You can get in and out of credit cards in a hurry. Not so easy to get in and out of mortgages.
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.
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.
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.
We're trying to improve the consumer financial marketplace one American at a time.
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'd be the first to say that cybersecurity is a difficult and challenging matter.
Debt collection is a market with real, persistent, and disturbing problems.
My job is to take the law as it's given to me and enforce it and implement it faithfully.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos owes Ohio $5.3 million for campaign finance violations, and Mike DeWine's office refuses to collect the fine.
Our main concern is that demand for credit be fulfilled in ways that are actually beneficial to consumers and not harmful to them.