Monday, March 9, 2009
Ken Lewis (CEO BofA)
"all of us at Bank of America understand the responsibilities that come with access to public funds"
Friday, February 27, 2009
Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis
"I answered all the questions to the best of my knowledge and hopefully brought some clarity"
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
"There is a reasonable prospect that the current recession will end in 2009"
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
T. Boone Pickens
"we'll get rid of foreign oil"
"if this all unfolds, we're gonna make a huge difference in 3 to 5 years"
"we could very well see a real energy plan before memorial day"
"this is not a subject that politics should ever be mentioned, and so, i'm the energy guy, sorta the lone ranger working on the energy deal"
"the security of the country remains at risk"
"if this all unfolds, we're gonna make a huge difference in 3 to 5 years"
"we could very well see a real energy plan before memorial day"
"this is not a subject that politics should ever be mentioned, and so, i'm the energy guy, sorta the lone ranger working on the energy deal"
"the security of the country remains at risk"
President Obama
"we cannot simply spend as we please and defer the consequences to the next budget, the next administration, or the next generation"
"i'm pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office"
"i'm pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office"
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Ken Lewis (CEO Bank of America)
"We see no reason why a company that is profitable with strong levels of capital and liquidity and that continues to lend actively should be considered for nationalization.”
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
President Obama
"We're putting Americans to work doing the work that America needs done in critical areas that have been neglected for too long"
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Representative John Boehner (republican)
"this unprecedented move by the president, i think, would undermine the goal of having a fair and accurate census count"
"i think if this process continues to be controlled by the White House, we're opening the door to politicize the census and to shift billions of dollars, tens of billions of dollars around to states based on inaccurate data"
Senator Judd Greg (republican)
"i do believe, generally, that i can be even more effective for this presidency in the senate than maybe even in his cabinet"
"bottom line is this was simply a bridge too far for me"
"i think as soon as the detail starts to flow in behind the plan that Secretary Geithner has laid out, people in the market are gonna react to it positively"
"bottom line is this was simply a bridge too far for me"
"i think as soon as the detail starts to flow in behind the plan that Secretary Geithner has laid out, people in the market are gonna react to it positively"
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Paul Krugman (Economist)
"The problem is that financial institutions have lost a lot of money and many of the big ones, if they are not actually insolvent, are very close"
Kenneth D Lewis (CEO BofA)
"We understand that taxpayers are angry"
"We have every incentive to lend, And despite the recessionary headwinds, we are lending.”
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
"Right now critical parts of our financial system are damaged"
"We need to be exceptionally careful that we protect taxpayers"
"we know that the complete collapse of our financial system would be incalculable for families, for businesses, and for our nation"
Friday, February 6, 2009
US Congressman Paul Kanjorski (democrat)
"if you don't have a banking system, you don't have an economy"
"Somebody threw us in the middle of the atlantic ocean without a life raft and we're trying to determine which is the closest shore and whether there's any chance in the world to swim that far. we don't know"
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (democrat)
"I am very proud, once again, to talk about our economic recovery package, it has a strategic mission to create jobs, to cut taxes, and have a state stabilization fund, to help states meet their fiscal needs"
"we have to have this bill passed, so that we don't have another month tallied up, going into the future where we lose a half a million jobs a month"
"I reject, and house democrats have rejected the same warmed over stew of bad, failed economic policies of the bush administration that got us where we are today, instead we're going in a new direction"
Dick Cheney
“When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry”
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Newt Gingrich
"Well, the fact is, we're all going to go off a cliff. That's what's happening. This is a much more profound problem than people think"
Friday, January 30, 2009
Vice President Biden
"the focus of that meeting will be green jobs, those jobs that pay well, can't be outsourced, and will help us move toward a cleaner, more self-sufficient energy future"
"this task force, i might add, which coming out of the vice president's office will be a bit unique, will be fully transparent, totally transparent"
"none of this will happen behind closed doors"
President Obama
"we intend to double our capacity to generate renewable energy"
"we will bring healthcare into the 21st century"
"we can be competitive and lean and mean"
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich
"I'm innocent and i didn't do anything wrong"
"I want you to know I never, ever intended to commit a criminal act"
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
The Fed
"Conditions in some financial markets have improved, in part reflecting government efforts to provide liquidity and strengthen financial institutions"
Friday, January 16, 2009
Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice
"i think the United States of America is extraordinary in being a powerful country that has never sought and will never seek empire"
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni
"Hamas doesn't represent, this way or the other, any kind of legitimate aspiration of the Palestinian people, but yet they control Gaza Strip"
"what we are doing today in Gaza Strip is not against the peace process, but it serves the peace process"
Thursday, January 15, 2009
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (democrat)
"it is calibrated that way, so that it will have immediate job creation but that the job creation will continue so that we have stabilization of the economy"
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Dana Perino - White House PRess Secretary
"Let me just make sure it's clear — and I'll say it on the record one more time — that it has never been the policy of this president or this administration to torture"
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