Michigan Congressman Joe Knollenberg (republican)

"it is not your money"

G W Bush

"financial turmoil anywhere in the world affects economies everywhere in the world"

"the United States and her partner are taking the right steps to get through this crisis"

"this weekend leaders will establish principles for adapting our financial systems to the realities of the twenty-first century market place"

"history has shown that the greater threat to economic prosperity is not too little government involvement in the market, it is too much government involvement in the market"

"the long term solution to today's problems is sustained economic growth. And the surest path to that growth is free markets and free people"

"the crisis was not a failure of the free market system and the answer is not to try to reinvent that system"

"free market capitalism is far more than economic theory, it is the engine of social mobility, the highway to the American dream"

"today the success of the world's largest economies comes from their embrace of free markets"

Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson

"With a stronger capital base, our banks will be more confident and better positioned to play their necessary role to support economic activity"

President Elect Barack Obama

"immediately after I become president, I'm going to confront this economic crisis head-on"

"the auto industry is the backbone of American manufacturing and a critical part of our attempt to reduce our dependence on foreign oil"

"we cannot afford to wait on moving forward on the key priorities that I identified during the campaign including clean energy, healthcare, education, and tax relief for middle class families"

Founder of The Vanguard Group - John Bogle

"It seems to me that people have lost sight of the fact that the fundamentals [of the market] have improved radically"