Crisis Quote by Matthew Desmond

In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all. Since then they…

— Alan M. Taylor

Let's stop for a second and remember where we were eight years ago [in 2008]. We had the worst financial crisis, the Great Recession,…

— Hillary Clinton

It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take…

— Robert Gibbs

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

— Henry Paulson

We went into a recession in 2008 because of gasoline prices. The bubble burst in housing because people couldn’t pay their mortgages because of…

— Rick Santorum

I think people have to remember where we were in 2009. We were losing 800,000 jobs a month. We had an unemployment rate in…

— Tom Vilsack

What caused the economic collapse 2008? It was the subprime mortgage crisis.

— Rush Limbaugh

While rising delinquencies and foreclosures will continue to weigh heavily on the housing market this year, it will not cripple the U.S.

— Ben Bernanke

We have to create and preserve enough affordable housing to meet the demand, because the affordability crisis is imposing a hardship on millions of…

— Ritchie Torres

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

Millions of Americans were duped by the federal government and the Federal Reserve into buying homes they could not afford and failed to count…

— Mark Skousen

It's almost 10 years since the 2008 crisis, but we all still remember the consequences of ignoring threats to the public finances.

— Liz Truss