Political Quotes

“Mr. President, a week or so ago, I was being interviewed by CNN. I think it was a couple days after the jobs report had come out for the month of May. The reporter who was interviewing me was commenting on those job numbers--which I think were disappointing to all of us--and asking me if we were back in the soup, were we heading back into a recession. Instead of continuing to recover from a really deep, awful recession, an awfully hard, tough recession, would we go back into the soup? And I said to her that I know there are people in my State and across the country who are still hurting, still suffering. People have lost jobs, and in too many cases people have lost their homes and are fearful of losing their health care and not being able to maybe send their son or daughter back to school. And I said that I realize we still have more pain in our country, more than any of us would like. But, I said, maybe there are four things we should keep in mind: No. 1, let's not talk ourselves back into a recession, which we have the ability to do. Our hair is not on fire. Let's continue to make sure we are looking at the underlying fundamentals of the economy, and while they are not universally up or upbeat, the underlying fundamentals are not entirely bad either. Our energy costs are way down. We are not just the Saudi Arabia of coal, we are the Saudi Arabia of natural gas.…”