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These two entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more…

— Barney Frank

These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis,

— Barney Frank

If Freddie Mac is unable to raise capital, it could spark a political and financial crisis.

— Charles Duhigg

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - two bloated and corrupt government-sponsored programs - contributed heavily to the crisis.In order to prevent another crisis, we…

— Carly Fiorina

“The not-so-astonishing results: By late 2008, Fannie and Freddie were on the verge of collapse and were taken over by the government. Thus their…

— Yaron Brook

Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I was chairman of…

— J. C. Watts

Although not well known outside Wall Street, Freddie Mac and its corporate cousin, Fannie Mae, are two of the world's largest financial institutions and…

— Alex Berenson

In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions…

— Ben Bernanke

We gotta get Fannie and Freddie out of government ownership. It makes no sense that these are owned by the government and have been…

— Steve Mnuchin

I think we're not going to preserve Fannie and Freddie in anything like their current form. We're going to have to bring fundamental change…

— Timothy Geithner

These public-private partnerships are very, very dangerous. The most rotten part of the financial system in the US consisted of the government sponsored entities,…

— George Soros

The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to the slightest…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb