We meet at a moment of great uncertainty for America.

It's also important that we continue to work with governments around the globe to confront what is truly a global crisis.

Your jobs. Your health care. Your retirement. Your children's future.

If you want real change - if you want an economy that rewards work, and that works for Main Street and Wall Street; if you want tax relief for the middle class and millions of new jobs; then I ask you to knock on some doors, make some…

I believe that we can steer ourselves out of this crisis because I believe in this country.

The economic crisis we face is the worst since the Great Depression.

I know these are difficult times.

I want to end the tax breaks for companies that are shipping jobs overseas.

I think everybody understands at this point that we are experiencing the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

Now, it is true that my friend and supporter, Warren Buffett, for example, could afford to pay a little more in taxes.

And we must make sure that these institutions are helping homeowners stay in their homes, which includes abiding by a 90 day moratorium on foreclosures for families who are making a good faith effort to pay their mortgages.

The Treasury Department's concept of investing money directly into struggling banks so they can lend money to families and businesses is the right one.

Taxpayers who are now invested in Goldman Sachs should not be treated worse than when Warren Buffett invested in Goldman Sachs.

Injecting capital into our financial institutions is essential to stabilizing our economy, but we must make sure we are not giving sweetheart, insider deals that shift the risk to taxpayers without giving them sufficient upside.

I will be studying the details of this deal to make sure we can advance the core concept while still protecting taxpayers and ensuring that CEOs are not being enriched on our dime.

We must make sure this plan is implemented in a way that helps homeowners and does not enrich Wall Street CEOs at the taxpayers' expense.

There's some ideas Senator McCain has put forward in the last couple of weeks that are very bad ideas.

There's some ideas that Senator McCain has put forward in the last couple of weeks that are very bad ideas.