35 Quotes by Franklin Raines

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.

We're just sort of like the Eveready bunny. And we just keep going and we expect that to continue because of the strength of that housing market.

Based on the presentation that we heard today, there are more issues then the last time we sat down, ... It fails to target tax relief on middle incomes as the president's approach would do.

We think that it's unwise to put into the constitution a mechanism that enshrines for all time a particular way of measuring the budget.

When they had difficulties they've had a tendency to lurch to the right and out of the mainstream, and we hope that doesn't happen this time,

People are buying new homes, existing homes at record levels. And that just shows the underlying strength of the economy and the optimism of families that this is still a good time to buy a home even though interest ratesÊ on mortgages have risen substantially,

It creates a contrast between their ideas and ours. We are perfectly happy to be judged by that contrast.

Well, it's been great for new home purchasers, particularly first-time purchasers. I think this is a good time to be thinking about buying a home.

We are in favor of having the most accurate measure of inflation possible, in order to index those various programs, and we are trying to measure what the real cost-of-living changes are,