The President worked with House and Senate Democrats to pass the stimulus as quickly as possible, promising that the unemployment rate would not go above 8 percent once the bill was passed.

We need an honest discussion about our economy and not just rhetoric.

If big government spending was going to get us out of this mess, for goodness sakes, we should have been out of it a long time ago.

The administration assailed critics by claiming there was a consensus amongst economists that a massive spending bill was in the country's best interest.

In early 2009, President Obama sold the stimulus as a solution to the recession and skyrocketing unemployment.

I hate being an employer because of all the stuff you make us do, and he pointed right at me, talking about government.

If these tax loopholes were so bad, so terrible, so needed, why didn't the previous Congress just 10 months ago take care of them then?

One of the thing we thought this debt ceiling debate made sense was a proposal we put forward we thought was starting to break through with the American.

They didn't steal that money, they worked hard for that money.

We need to get government out of the way.

We don't pay our bills by going deeper into debt. That is avoiding paying our bills and guaranteeing eventual default.