Quotes About Predatory Lending

#1. North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending.

Mel Watt

#2. After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.

Claire McCaskill

#3. Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.

Paul Wellstone

#4. Groups that work in black neighborhoods around the country have contended that much of subprime lending is 'predatory lending.'

Bill Dedman

#5. 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 doing.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.

Francoise Sagan

#7. Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Alice Walker

#8. Multitasking is the enemy of a focused attentional system. Increasingly, we demand that our attentional system try to focus on several things at once, something that it was not evolved to do.

Daniel J. Levitin

#9. We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than the classroom. We blend time and faith and knowledge in our schools - not only to create educated citizens, but also to shape the destiny of this great Republic.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#10. The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

#11. America is a nation of prayer. It's impossible to tell the story of our nation without telling the story of people who pray.

George W. Bush

#12. How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.

Karl Kraus

#13. You can learn a lot from criticism if you can take what's constructive out of it. If you read a review that starts with, 'This person is an idiot; who do they think they are?', you're not going to learn anything from that.

Blake Lively