And I know how frustrating it is for taxpayers when they're looking and they're saying, let me get this straight. You've got a guy who was m...
Even with this plan, our economy will likely be measured in years and not weeks or months.
We've inherited an economic crisis as deep and as dire as any since the Great Depression.
If stuff hasn't worked and people don't feel like I've led the country in the right direction, then you'll have a new President.
If we don't act immediately, then millions more jobs will disappear.
We need somebody who has got the heart, the empathy to recognize what it is like to be a young teen-age mom, the empathy to us understand wh...
I see no question that more funds will be necessary on the side of stabilizing the financial institutions of this country.
I didn't expect to have to do an $800 billion stimulus package as my first act when I became president of the United States.
This notion that somehow I came in here just ginned up to spend $800 billion, that wasn't -- that wasn't how I envisioned my presidency begi...
I think it's perfectly legitimate to say that those programs should be out of this particular recovery package and we can deal with them lat...
I'm going to create jobs. The credit markets are going to start operating efficiently. and you're going to see signs that the economy is goi...
What I've been concerned about is some of the language that's been used suggesting that this is full of pork and this is wasteful government...
More than 90 percent of the jobs created by this plan will be in the private sector. They're not going to be make-work jobs, but jobs doing ...
It's a little hard for me to take criticism from folks about this recovery package, after they have presided over a doubling of the national...
What I have said is what other economists have said across the political spectrum, which is that, if you delay acting on an economy of this ...
These steps will put more money in the pockets of those Americans who are most likely to spend it.
the key is to -- that inaction would make this crisis worse, so he wants action, even if this bill is not perfect.
You have some people, very sincere, who philosophically just think that government has no business interfering in the marketplace.
