Quotes About Home Ownership

#1. Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.

Bethany McLean

#2. I wonder who in their right mind thought I was mature enough for this: motherhood, home ownership, a career, adulthood in general. I hope I have them all fooled, that I have any clue at all what I'm doing.

Cassandra Dunn

#3. The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.

Leonard Boswell

#4. These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.

Mortimer Zuckerman

#5. Home ownership,and the vast consumption of materials and energy it requires, forces some pretty exploitative foreign policy manoeuvres. This makes people in those resource-rich places as mad as natives were at the practices of the colonial empires exploiting them two hundred years ago.

Douglas Rushkoff

#6. To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

Edmund Phelps

#7. The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.

Mortimer Zuckerman

#8. We have the highest graduation rates, the broadest health care access, and the greatest level of home ownership and workforce participation in the country. And we did it all with a small population in a cold state that coastal big shots refer to as fly-over land.

Tim Pawlenty

#9. Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community.

Rick Renzi

#10. As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent.

Alphonso Jackson

#11. The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.

Rick Renzi

#12. It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young Native American families to stay on tribal lands in order to live, work and raise a family.

Rick Renzi

#13. I'm fascinated how owning something, especially something as big as a home, can affect your political leanings. Home ownership spawns thoughts of equity and maintaining value.

Kirby Wright

#14. It's easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership.

Suze Orman

#15. I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.

Barney Frank

#16. In the Philippines, formalizing home ownership was until recently a 168-step process involving fifty-three public and private agencies and taking between thirteen and twenty-five years.

Niall Ferguson

#17. I happen to be a big believer in home ownership. I'm also a big believer that if someone wants to have a crack at the mining industry in Port Hedland, then they should be able to collect their ... benefits in Port Hedland even though they are from Alice Springs. It should be mobile.

Andrew Forrest

#18. Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.

Cliff Stearns

#19. Thatcher forged consent through the cultivation of a middle class that relished the joys of home ownership, private property, individualism, and the liberation of entrepreneurial opportunities.

David Harvey

#20. We all want a simpler code, but tax reform is about much more. It is about ensuring that everyone pays their fair share. The tax code is also used to promote behavior that we as a nation support, such as home ownership or charitable contributions.

Charles B. Rangel

#21. It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom

Alfred Jarry

#22. Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.

Edmund Phelps

#23. For much of American history, the worst classes were seen as extrusions of the worst land: scrubby, barren, and swampy wasteland. Home ownership remains today the measure of social mobility.

Nancy Isenberg

#24. As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#25. [American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.

Jonah Goldberg

#26. If there are two persons praying, there are three. If three meet to pray, there are four praying. There is always one more than you can see.

S.D. Gordon

#27. State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this.

Charles Dickens

#28. The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.

Major Owens

#29. The American Dream is ownership ... a house, a car, a vacation home and, even better, your own business

Mario Batali

#30. The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.

Nastassja Kinski

#31. We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.

Alex Campbell

#32. Let me be clear - Microsoft has no beef with open source.

Craig Mundie

#33. From the 1930s through the 1960s, black people across the country were largely cut out of the legitimate home-mortgage market through means both legal and extralegal. Chicago whites employed every measure, from 'restrictive covenants' to bombings, to keep their neighborhoods segregated.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#34. A film has its own life and takes its own time.

Aaron Eckhart

#35. I make that four horses and ten men just to get rid of one old woman. What did you do to the King?

Diana Wynne Jones

#36. Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Michael Tippett

#37. I'm not saying that owning a house makes life into some kind of blissful paradise; simply that it makes the difference between freedom and enslavement.

Tana French