If I had to cast that vote again, even knowing all that followed, including the criticism that we have received, I wouldn’t change it. I still believe that the consequences would have been far worse for all businesses and consumers if we had let AIG fail.
Despite the claims by some that healthier Wall Street firms or even the small businesses and consumers on Main Street did not benefit from assistance to AIG, I would argue that no business or individual was immune to the effects of a sequential collapse of key financial intermediaries.