"I really do believe that while we do need to stabilize the rental market and expand it, we should always have an opportunity or a pathway to homeownership."
"I think our government, if it wanted to, could look and find models that actually work and do both at the same time."
"this report is as much an indictment of what went wrong as a blueprint to move forward"
"I just cannot tell you how upsetting it is to homeowners who were literally washed out of their homes..."
"there is still a huge problem for people in the Gulf Coast area."
"the whole country understands the tremendous challenges that HUD has before it with the unprecedented housing crisis now engulfing the Nation."
"I would hope so because you can imagine how heart-wrenching--that is really a good word--it is to me to have really pressed so hard from a policy perspective to have a rental repair program adopted."
"I would hope that the new Administration would think that there is some better way than just, again, the trailer option for housing people."
"It signaled to me a real basic understanding that this catastrophe is going to have to be a multi-faceted approach from a variety of different Federal agencies."
"I hear the NRC has revamped its process for licensing new power plants. It is not progressing as well as some of us would like."
"I hope that now President Obama can find a middle road between the kind of Government-private sector planning."