"Another thing I think we all agree on is we want the Federal Government to take as little risk as possible and the private sector to take as much of that risk as possible."
"It is very easy for him to vote against a bill that would prevent a major recession from hitting Los Angeles."
"I assure you, it is smaller and the people who live in it are more working class than those in the $250,000 houses in much of North Carolina."
"A 15 percent decline in home values nationwide would do more to increase the Federal deficit than anything I can think of."
"We may have expensive homes, but we do pay our mortgages."
"When I talk to everybody in my district, they want jobs, small businesses want capital."
"I am waiting for my Republican colleagues to convert to Democrats. It is not that hard."
"This bill that we are talking about today is either a very small bill in its importance or a very large one."
"What does the secondary mortgage market look like to you if there is no government guarantee of long-term fixed-rate mortgages?"
"How much higher is that going to be without the government guarantee?"
"What does it do to the value of homes in this country if for the vast majority of buyers, the interest rate is three-quarters of a point higher than it would be otherwise?"
"We have to create a circumstance where the regime in Tehran has to choose between its nuclear weapons program and regime survival."