Asking Quote by George W. Bush

Now, suppose that a homeowner puts down only 3% of their own money or 3.5% for the FHA. That means if prices go down…

— Michael Hudson

The aim of promoting low down payments is to push prices back up so that fewer houses are going to be in negative equity…

— Michael Hudson

I am going to make it a priority to fight for full federal funding for public housing.

— Ritchie Torres

If we had created rules to automatically turn up the required down payment on a home when there's a housing bubble, or just say…

— Bill Foster

While I encourage people to save 100% down for a home, a mortgage is the one debt that I don't frown upon.

— Dave Ramsey

Unfortunately, throughout the housing crisis we've seen innocent homeowners who have been victims of shady mortgage lenders and unscrupulous individuals who have used a…

— Chuck Grassley

If it were possible to take interest rates into negative territory I would be voting for that.

— Janet Yellen

Ignore the annual percentage rate when shopping for a mortgage.

— Suze Orman

Once equity thresholds have been met, FHA borrowers should be treated the same as private borrowers.

— Dean Phillips

The government is promoting bad behavior... do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages... This is America! How many of you people want…

— Rick Santelli

In the 1930s and the 1940s, we set up the FHA. We set up the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. We set up specific bureaus…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

For many people, the mortgages they took out before 2008 are so high that they would be better off walking away from their houses.…

— Michael Hudson