"We believe that it's best to put the authority and the responsibility as near as possible to the individual human being."
"I owe special interests nothing. I owe the people everything."
"The Republicans have proved they can give us high unemployment and high inflation at the same time."
"Ours is a government, ours is a nation that requires strong leadership in the White House."
"Economic policies that are inept at best and indifferent at worst."
"The Republicans have managed for the past eight years to give us both rising unemployment rates and rising inflation."
"I want the government to change."
"In the absence of that leadership, there is no leadership."
"We need to decrease the influence of lobbyists and special interest groups."
"First of all it's to recognize the tremendous economic strength of this country and to set the putting back to work of our people as a top priority."
"We have a 40-percent unemployment rate among minority groups, those who don't speak English, or who are black or young people."
"The whole philosophy of the Republican Party, including my opponent, has been to pile on taxes on low-income people, to take them off on the corporations."
"I've never been a big spender."
"The best way to control inflation is not to make money scarce."
"It would be suicidal for me, politically speaking, to make a different kind of answer to the same question."
"The main thing about the housing industry is predictability."
"I don't believe that they are contradictory as far as inherent characteristics are concerned."
"I would like to keep the present Council on Wage and Price Stability intact."
