Fannie Quotes

You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system. - Jamie Dimon

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens. - Fannie Lou Hamer

White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake. . . . they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made. - Fannie Lou Hamer

What's in the basket, Mom? - Fannie Farmer

What was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember. - Fannie Lou Hamer

Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I was chairman of an organization called 'FM Policy Focus.' What we were saying was, if there was blip in the housing market, Fannie and Freddie would destabilize the greatest economy in the world. - J. C. Watts

We came out to show who is really No. 1 in the state. We're just trying to do our best to get to the state championship. Offense is very important but defense is more important. - Fannie Goodwin

This was an extraordinary year for Fannie Mae in every respect. - Franklin Raines