Douglas Duncan People Quotations

Some companies were just assigning people a closing date.

I am disappointed, but not surprised, that the Bush Administration would deny hard working people access to cheaper prescription medications,

People need to make decisions for themselves, for their families, for the groups they're associated with,

It comes down to what people are doing with their home equity.

We are asking people to walk their children to school, and to get children together and to assist them as best they can, ... We're asking for parent volunteers to look as they're walking if there are other kids walking separately, to bring them into the group and assist them that way.

People are trying to judge the degree of the (housing) slowdown and whether it is a slowdown, and if they are on the margins in terms of making a final decision, a small interest rate change one way or the other can have the effect of changing people's minds.

A fair number of first-time home purchases were brought forward because rates were so good, and a number of people also moved up in the market, when they were able to get a bigger mortgage at a lower rate. When rates move up, you won't get those first-time sales or the move-up factor. Is that offset by the benefits of economic expansion? In our view, not quite.