"it would be a mistake for, in your view, for the Congress to use the debt ceiling as a, quote, Bargaining chip."
"just with respect to that, those monetary decisions that created or saved between 600,000 and 700,000 jobs, is that correct?"
"Thank you, Chairman Bernanke, for your service to our country during a time of great economic turmoil."
"Not to focus on the debt limit as being a bargaining chip in this discussion."
"Thank you very much, Chairman Ryan, and welcome, Chairman Bernanke. I want to thank you for your service to our country during a period of great economic turmoil."
"The economy was in freefall, spiraling downwards at a negative growth rate of 6 percent."
"you wrote to the Speaker of the House on January 6th of this year indicating that your assessment would be that that would add $230 billion to the deficit over the next 10 years"
"I do think there's room for that."
"So based on those figures, it sounds like almost the reverse of the normal seasonal flu in terms of age impact?"
"It seems to me we should have some kind of grading system or some kind of way to identify who is responding adequately."
"I hope that you will monitor very closely the local impacts and in some ways hold people accountable."