Ralph Washington Sockman
Theologian
"When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul."
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Stuart Wilde
Author, Speaker
"It is better that you live in a one-room garret with a leaky roof, than live in a large house, the mortgage payments of which are causing your colon to turn cancerous!"
Michael Lewis
Author, Journalist
"Incredibly, at this critical juncture in financial history, after which so much changed so quickly, the only constraint in the subprime mortgage market was a shortage of people willing to bet against it."
Otto von Bismarck
Statesman, Chancellor
"Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man."
Steve Martin
Comedian, Actor, Writer
"I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?"
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"The Germans made just about every bad investment you could have made in the last 10 years. They invested in Icelandic banks. They invested in Greek government bonds. They were heavy into Irish banks, big into Irish banks, and they bought U.S. subprime mortgage bonds."
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"Well, we're just now seeing the reductions in mortgage rates. The mortgage rates are based on the ten-year rate and the Fed controls the overnight or the shorter rates."
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"My looks arent going to help me explain mortgage-backed securities."
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"You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent."
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"In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence, bonuses for executives in the here-and-now."
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"I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment."
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"I got a mortgage at 17! I didn't even know you could get a mortgage at 17."
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"It's a sensible rule that says before you get a mortgage it should be checked whether you can afford it."
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"When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it."
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