Political Quotes

“in recent weeks, President Trump has gone around the country touting the strength of the economy. He said: Our economy is the strongest it has ever been in the history of our country, and you just have to look at the numbers to know that. The numbers do tell us that the economy is strong and getting stronger, and that is a good thing, but they also tell us that the economy has been strengthening since 2010--after President Obama acted to save us from another Great Depression and when some Members of Congress wouldn't lift a finger to help him. During President Obama's term, even as the economic data showed more and more investment and more growth, the other side talked down the recovery because, even though it was good for America, it didn't help them win elections. As a candidate, this was Donald Trump's specialty. He was a master of this in September 2016--long into the recovery--when he said: ``This is the weakest so-called recovery since the Great Depression.'' The Great Depression wasn't a recovery; it was the Great Depression. We were coming out of the great recession. He even questioned the government's monthly jobs report, at one point calling it ``total fiction.'' ``Nobody has jobs. . . . It is not a real economy. It is a phony set of numbers. They cooked the books,'' he said of the government's report. ``Don't believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.9 percent or 5 percent unemployment. The number's probably 28, 29, as high as 35.…”