1930s Quote by Jesse Jackson

The people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than three years…

— Elizabeth Warren

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

I think there were bad actors in the government and bad actors in the finance, mortgage, markets industries that need to be called out…

— Hillary Clinton

The financial collapse of 2008 got its start with predatory mortgages, that weren’t sold by community banks and credit unions, they were sold by…

— Elizabeth Warren

From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root…

— Henry Paulson

They [political leaders ] thought the only problem was the banking system, and if they fixed the banking system, all would be fine. But…

— Joseph Stiglitz

I became a professor myself, teaching bankruptcy and consumer protection. I conducted a national study of mortgage companies in bankruptcy. And what I found…

— Katie Porter

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they…

— Ben Stein

This crisis started probably due to the freedom they gave to the banks. First President [Ronald] Reagan and then President [Bill] Clinton. So, for…

— Costa-Gavras

“The recession, which started in 2007, is ongoing. The underlying fundamental causes of the meltdown have not been addressed. Banks are still not lending.…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

We urge the Department of Justice to carefully investigate and aggressively prosecute all senior bank officials who participated in manipulating the London interbank offered…

— Peter Welch

What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely…

— Matt Taibbi