Barney Frank: “If you have the courage of your convictions, let's bring it on.”

I think it is clear that Fannie and Freddie are sufficiently secure so they are in no great danger.

It was a great mistake to push lower income people into housing they couldn't afford and couldn't really handle once they had it.

For example, there are key differences in product characteristics between payday, car title, and other high-cost secured loans and more traditional closed-end unsecured lending and related products, and the products are often regulated…

One thing that not only Barney Frank, Ms. Barnes and also Sandra Day O'Connor, Justice O'Connor agreed on is that that Kelo decision stripped those three words out of the Fifth Amendment, 'for public use.'