Quotes About Foreclosures

#1. I'm very interested in the more grass-roots consequences of the economic meltdown: issues related to mortgage foreclosures, debt collection, and the practices of credit card companies and others who hold a lot of consumer debt.

Eric Schneiderman

#2. A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage-market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.

Alan Greenspan

#3. Because when we think about the real facts: 44 million Americans without health insurance, millions without jobs, a 50-year high on mortgage foreclosures, an historic high the third year in a row on personal bankruptcies.

Chaka Fattah

#4. Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

Brian Sandoval

#5. Trapped in the bureaucracy nightmare, real families suffer when the big banks and their servicers force foreclosures. The emotional toll on children packing up their rooms and on parents struggling to find a temporary roof is a deep one.

Sheldon Whitehouse

#6. I want to talk about jobs, the economy, foreclosures. I want to talk about energy prices.

Dean Heller

#7. After the risky mortgage-lending practices fostered by government intervention led to massive defaults and foreclosures that caused financial institutions to collapse or be bailed out, Congressman Frank changed his tune completely.

Thomas Sowell

#8. Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#9. Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.

Mitt Romney

#10. It's like, hmm, there's people with $2000 weaves that could have bought health care with that weave money. They don't have insurance. People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.

Chris Rock

#11. It's Obama's bad luck that he got elected just as the mayhem of the foreclosures, the banking collapse, and the General Motors disaster was accelerating the surge in unemployment to warp speed.

Tina Brown

#12. I'm telling you that there is no silver bullet to keep home prices from going down or to prevent all foreclosures.

Henry Paulson

#13. 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

#14. If you count all forms of involuntary displacement - formal and informal evictions, landlord foreclosures, building condemnations - you discover that between 2009 and 2011 more than 1 in 8 Milwaukee renters experienced a forced move.

Matthew Desmond

#15. Community groups contend that door-to-door loan sales are often followed by foreclosures.

Bill Dedman

#16. 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 a deal, because foreclosures are very expensive to the lender and obviously not good for the homeowner and the community.

Henry Paulson

#17. President Obama's re-election campaign said that this year they'll knock on 150 percent more doors than they did in 2008. Well, of course they will. They have to. There's so many foreclosures it's tough to tell where people live.

Jay Leno

#18. We don't have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures - and I quote - 'hit the bottom' so the market could - I quote - 'run its course.'

Kamala Harris

#19. Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

W. H. Auden

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Francia Raisa

#21. Our heavenly Father's arms are gentle, but strong enough to carry us and all of our burdens. - Brad Dixon

Gary Chapman

#22. Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.

Edward Abbey

#23. I think you can spread yourself way too thin way too easily, so when I'm trying to create, I'm trying to create ideas for projects and have a vision for other people.

Corey Reynolds

#24. The progress of manufactures and commerce insensibly collects a large multitude within the walls of a city: but these citizens are no longer soldiers; and the arts which adorn and improve the state of civil society, corrupt the habits of the military life.

Edward Gibbon

#25. Give me a strong back, over a soft heart.

Connie Brockway

#26. And his face is so close to mine that it's like he can see inside my soul

Melina Marchetta

#27. I can't point to anything that has been more responsible for my career than my training.

Jim Parrack