12/24/2014
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"We have inherited an economic crisis as deep and as dire as any since the Great Depression."
"If we don't act immediately, then millions more jobs will disappear."
"If stuff hasn't worked, and people don't feel like I have led the country in the right direction, then you will have a new president."
"I can't tell you with 100 percent certainty that every single item in this plan will work exactly as we hoped."