"I welcome you to go to the average home in your home State, knock on the door, say you have so many bedrooms in that most average home, you are living in luxury."
"This tax bill will certainly make it more difficult for Fannie and Freddie because... this is going to adversely affect home prices."
"We need a government agency to provide the guarantee if we are going to have 30-year fixed rate mortgages available to regular working families in the United States."
"I would point out that, especially after the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. gratuitously took anti-Russian positions."
"I would like to thank the Chair for holding these hearings and hope that it actually leads to a markup."
"I want to add my voice to Mr. Scott's, that I hope we move forward on a markup."
"The national interest, I think, requires that we are able to have vehicles that move money to small businesses."
"We have a lot of systems that move money to large corporations, to government bonds, to real estate."
"That is a pretty good starting point."
"We are focused on sustainable housing finance, the old system."
"What was not sustainable is the old system where Fannie and Freddie had private shareholders and private management."