Barack Obama: “He has been one of the prime architects with Paulson and with Bernanke of this bailout effort.”

The success of this experiment was never a given.

We don’t have any folks who grill here?

People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…