Company Quote by Mary Elizabeth Lease

Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that's what foreclosure is.

— J. P. Morgan

If home ownership is the American dream, then foreclosure certainly is the American nightmare. It destroys more than credit. It destroys lives. And its…

— Lisa Madigan

Foreclosures are a significant problem; they're an economic problem.

— Henry Paulson

Trying to avert foreclosures, once you can't just force the banks to do it as a condition of getting aid, means that you have…

— Barney Frank

It's time to pull the bandage off America's foreclosure problem. The economy is ready to emerge from its recent dark period, but to make…

— Mark Zandi

Foreclosure is nothing new. And it certainly will always be a fact of life for some.

— Lisa Madigan

People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these…

— Chris Rock

A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority…

— Alan Greenspan

The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in…

— Thomas Jefferson

In the past, if a homeowner with a mortgage had a problem making the payment, often he'd get together with a lender and strike…

— Henry Paulson

But the basic principle that we’re going to have to see some of this debt written down, that the government is going to have…

— Barack Obama

“We were taking out mortgages we couldn’t afford because they were camouflaged to look as if we had a reasonable chance of paying them…

— Douglas Rushkoff