Bedrock Quote by Bill Ackman

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.

— Doug Larson

Opt for a fixed-rate rather than an adjustable-rate mortgage.

— Suze Orman

Consider a 15- or 20-year fixed-rate mortgage instead of a 30-year, if you can afford the monthly payments - they may not be as…

— Suze Orman

If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd…

— Warren Buffett

The universe of mortgage lending has gotten to the point where there is a place in it for everybody.

— Joe Mays

Housing is stability. Housing is dignity. Housing is absolutely necessary, critical infrastructure.

— Raphael Warnock

We need a system that provides mortgage credit in good times and bad to a broad range of creditworthy borrowers.

— Jerome Powell

Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a…

— Anonymous

I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.

— Henry Paulson

We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and…

— John Prescott

I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

— Christina Romer

The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb