08/24/2014
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"I believe we need to do even more to give these men and women a boost."
"we couldn't keep on doing the same things we had been doing"
"The economy was contracting at 6.5 percent that quarter that I was sworn in, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression."
"On day one, we took the reins, and we said, we are going to make sure that we don't slip into a great depression."