The bottom line is am I viewed as somebody who's gonna be a champion for the guy who's waking up every day, working hard for a paycheck?

I understand where we need to take the country.

We must work quickly in a bipartisan fashion to resolve this crisis to avert an even broader economic catastrophe.

America has benefited tremendously from the vigor and talents of the Armenian people.

The American people need to know that we feel as great a sense of urgency about the emergency on Main Street as we do the emergency on Wall Street.

Look, if the question is executive experience, then Senator McCain and I are on equal footing.

Here in America, our destiny is not written for us; it's written by us.

I think that when you think about the challenges we face, these are challenges that require us to look forward and not backwards.

We cannot have a plan for Wall Street banks that does not help homeowners stay in their homes and help distressed communities.

I think there's no doubt that we're gonna see, when the numbers come out, that we are officially in recession.

Armenians first achieved their modern independence in 1918 and regained it after 70 years of Soviet rule in 1991.

The bottom line is that we must change the economic policies that led us down this dangerous path in the first place.

The era of greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street and in Washington has led to a financial crisis as profound as any we have faced since the Great Depression.

Yes. I think that a nuclear armed Iran is not just a threat to us, it's a threat to Israel.

If we had had a regulatory system that had kept pace with the changes in the financial system, that would have had an enormous impact in containing some of the problems that are out there.

We must work quickly in a bipartisan fashion to resolve this crisis and restore our financial sector so capital is flowing again and we can avert an even broader economic catastrophe.

This is a global financial crisis and it requires a global solution.

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95% of all working families.