Capital Quote by Charles Duhigg

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

Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted.

— Bethany McLean

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

— Barney Frank

“For though there was no chance of persuading a pension fund manager looking to make a longer-term loan to buy a Freddie Mac bond…

— Michael Lewis

At some point, there will be some other financial crisis. It's in the nature of a capitalist system.

— Lee Hsien Loong

RE: GSEs like Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: "creditors will continue to underprice the risk-taking of these financial institutions, overfund them, and fail to…

— Gary H. Stern

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

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

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

“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

The financial crisis was linked to the fact that banks had excessive leverage and too many risky assets. The solution is not to try…

— John Paulson

Crisis creates leverage to change.

— Bruce Rauner