Steve Ballmer Quotes

Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.

More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation's economy.

It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.

Let us not forget, the financial crisis had its roots in the decision by Congress to embark on a course of social justice to get everyone that wanted a home into one, regardless of whether or not they could afford it.

I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.

I still think buying a home is the best investment any individual can make.

The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth.

How do you think we have the home mortgage deduction? We have it because way back when it was determined that the American dream equaled home ownership. And everybody knows that the vast majority of the American people will never be able to write a check for a house. You have to finance it.

Times change, and right now what people need is, they need to be able to send their kids to college, they need to able to buy a house.

Listening to what people in other countries are saying and trying to understand how they perceive their place in the world is essential to a future of peace and security at home and abroad.

We are committing ourselves to basic protections of our people... We will not permit banks to repossess the homes of working class and middle class people. That's the end of that, it is not negotiable.

Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.

Let's take a look at NAFTA. Trump said that NAFTA was a bad deal and he was going to get rid of it in the first 100 days. Now, that's also off the table. He's made a lot of promises that he can't keep. He has distorted information. I do not think he should not be president of the United States. And I think our allies and people in other countries are looking at America and saying, "This can't be. How did this happen?"

We will reform legal immigration to serve the best interests of America and its workers, the forgotten people - workers. We're going to take care of our workers. We're going to renegotiate trade deals. We're going to bring our jobs back home.

Go back home where you came from. This country is mine, and I intend to stay here and to raise this country full of grown people.

I want to buy a house. I want to retire well. I want to have baby.

Mitt Romney and I don't agree on every issue and certainly housing is one of them. When you look at what is going on here in Southern Nevada, you can't say you got to let the housing market hit bottom. We have been bouncing along the bottom for years. And the fact is we have to do everything possible to: 1) keep people in their homes and 2) get people who are out of their homes back into their homes.

The construction of social housing and the attempt to support families seeking to buy their own homes are all projects from the 1960s and '70s. It all sounds old-fashioned, but it is actually completely modern.

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

The kind of plan that Donald [Tramp] has put forth would be trickle-down economics all over again. In fact, it would be the most extreme version, the biggest tax cuts for the top percent of the people in this country than we've ever had.

We will give Venezuelans living abroad reasons to return home. This country needs many qualified people, a lot of manpower - people willing to bet on a better future. We need the help of all Venezuelans.

I don't care very much for the People Magazine approach to applied economics.

Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the least government interference with the market - contrary to rhetoric.

Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away

The notion of the competitiveness of countries, on the model of the competitiveness of companies, is nonsense.