40 Quotes by Donald Powell

Like the rest of the economy, banks are feeling the effects of the recession, as well as the aftershocks of the terrorist attacks on America in September,

The American public knows that the banking sector has had record profits for the last four years. It's an opportunity to be generous.

That work is being done as we speak.

Today the president is requesting another $1.5 billion.

There are many things consumers and business owners can do now and in the coming weeks to help put their financial houses back in order in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina, ... The FDIC is doing what we can to try to keep this natural disaster from turning into a financial disaster for all the people harmed by Katrina.

This will enable people to get on with their lives.

Every time some type of natural disaster has hit, the people of this region have come back, and come back stronger than before. Failure is not an option. ... It's too important a task not to do it right.

We just don't know. I would hope it would take fewer years.

The president is committed to rebuilding the Gulf Coast.