The Recovery and Reinvestment Act that we've put forward will provide billions of dollars to build schools and help with school construction.

The only measure of my success as president when people look back five years from now or nine years from now is going to be, did I get this economy fixed?

What I won't do is, in some cases, some of the criticism has suggested that the better approach would be to do exactly what we did over the last eight years that got us into this problem in the first place.

Right now I'm learning an awful lot about the economy. I'm not a trained economist, but I'm spending a lot of time thinking about that so that I can make the very best decisions possible for the American people.

I think that, if you look at -- first of all, I think, to -- in fairness to the House Democrats -- and this hasn't been talked about enough -- if you tally up all the programs that have been criticized on A.C. 360 or anywhere else, that…

I came here to change things.

I think I made a mistake. And I told Tom that. I take responsibility for the appointees.

The unemployment insurance, health care for people who've lost their jobs. You know, providing some relief to the states on those fronts and providing families relief. That's very important.

What I want to do is make sure that I'm constantly talking about al Qaeda and other affiliated organizations because we, I believe, can win over moderate Muslims to recognize that that kind of destruction and nihilism ultimately leads to a…

The recovery and reinvestment act that we put forward will provide billions of dollars to build schools and help with construction.

We are going to see substantial support. And people are going to say this is a serious effort.