It is intolerable for us to have Al Qaeda base camps maintained in their territories that are planning to attack the U.S. homeland.

I know how hard the women of this country are working.

My criteria for an achievable and sustainable situation would be one in which you are not seeing mass violence in Iraq.

The United States must lead a truly global effort to prevail against al Qaeda and their hate-filled ideology.

We did not arrive at this crisis by some accident of history.

Truly, we are all in this together.

We are facing one of the most serious financial crises in this nation's history.

This isn't a time for fear or panic.

These extraordinary steps must be designed with only the public good in mind, not to enhance the personal gain of CEOs and management at taxpayers' expense.

We must also help Main Street as well.

This plan must be temporary and coupled with tough new oversight and regulations of our financial institutions.

It is critical at this point that the markets and the public have confidence that their work will be unimpeded by partisan wrangling, and that leaders in both parties work in concert to solve the problem at hand.

Taxpayers must share in any upside benefit that such stability brings.

The events of the last few days have made it clear that we must take further bold and decisive action to shore up confidence in our financial markets and avoid a deepening economic crisis that could jeopardize the life savings and…

But it is now clear that even bolder and more decisive action is necessary.

For too long, this Administration has been willing to hit the fast-forward button in helping distressed Wall Street firms.

We must take equally swift and serious action to help lift the burdens they face every day.

Swift and unprecedented action to shore up Wall Street must come alongside equally swift and serious efforts to help struggling families on Main Street, create new jobs, and grow our middle-class once more.