my commitment to marking a new chapter in America's leadership on climate change

if this President doesn't do it, I will in January.

important to get a national security team in place, because transition periods are potentially times of vulnerability to a terrorist attack.

Just going to have a good conversation about how we can do some work together to fix up the country and also to offer thanks to Senator McCain for the outstanding service he's already rendered.

For the auto industry to completely collapse would be a disaster in this kind of environment, not just for individual families but the repercussions across the economy would be dire. So it's my belief that we need to provide assistance to…

we need to do this if not just for just optics to show the country that we can give money directly to homeowners and that in itself would make a difference.

Make no mistake; this is the greatest economic challenge of our times. And while the road ahead will be long and the work will be hard, I know that we can steer ourselves out of this crisis.

One area that I'm concerned about and I've said this publicly, is we have not focused on foreclosures and what's happening to homeowners as much as I would like. We have the tools to do it. We've got to set up a negotiation between banks…

You actually have a consensus among conservative, Republican-leaning economists and liberal, left-leaning economists. And the consensus is this; that we have to do whatever it takes to get this economy moving again. That we have to…

We're just going to have a good conversation about how we can do some work together to fix up the country, and -- and also to offer thanks to Senator McCain for the outstanding service he's already rendered.

Make no mistake, this is the greatest economic challenge of our times. And while the road ahead will be long and the work will be hard, I know that we can steer ourselves out of this crisis.