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"

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"

The Fed

"Conditions in some financial markets have improved, in part reflecting government efforts to provide liquidity and strengthen financial institutions"

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"

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"

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"