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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

Between the Community Redevelopment Act, requiring banks to make what I would call very weak loans, and specific quotas that the Congress imposed on…

— Wilbur Ross

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

— Henry Paulson

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

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

Incredibly, at this critical juncture in financial history, after which so much changed so quickly, the only constraint in the subprime mortgage market was…

— Michael Lewis

“As Representative Barney Frank put it: I believe that we, as the Federal Government, have probably done too little rather than too much to…

— Yaron Brook

Barack Obama is telling the banking industry what it can and can't charge and what profit he will accept and what level of profit…

— Rush Limbaugh

One third of the $15 trillion of mortgages in existence in 2008 are owned, or securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae, the…

— Walter E. Williams

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

I had begun to worry about the housing market back in 2003, when lenders first resurrected interest-only mortgages, loosening their credit standards to generate…

— Michael Burry

The bailout of Fannie Mae is completely off the books. It's going to cost us hundreds of billions of dollars. Yet nobody is placing…

— Leonard Lance