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64 | Th e M Rep o RT Final ThoughTs Final Thoughts This month's button-pushing quotes couldn't help but grab our attention. Always lively, industry and political heavy-weights provided some great headlines with their frank assessments. "I won't name anybody in particular, but maybe the senator from Massachusetts, has slightly a different perspective . . ." Speaking at a Mortgage Bankers Association gathering, Sen. Ben SaSSe (R-Nebraska) mocked Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-Massachusetts) by suggesting that she wants to eliminate all risk from the economy. "They're clearly not walking around the back of the property . . ." Comment made by Shanna SMith, chief executive of the National Fair Housing Alliance, regarding Fannie Mae's statement that they do quality control measures on their properties. In May, the Alliance accused Fannie Mae of neglecting foreclosures in black and Latino neighborhoods. ". . . absolutely unconscionable. . ." Rep. ed Royce (R-California) commenting on FHFA Director Mel Watt directing Freddie Mac to submit a proposed executive compensation for its CEO as high as the 25th percentile of the market, or as high as $7.26 million a year. " . . . the president has made this more personal than he needed to." In an interview with Politico Sen. SheRRod BRown (D-OH) accused the president of sexism for calling Sen. Elizabeth Warren "Elizabeth" in a recent interview. ". . . riddled with inaccurate and twisted conclusions from fragments of a handful of [cherry-picked] emails. . ." Quicken Loans' response to the evidence presented in a Justice Department lawsuit alleging improperly made FHA loans