Food Stamp recipients didn’t cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

No one saw the recession coming.

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: ‚What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?‘

The minute a Wall Street firm purchases your debt, your bank no longer has it on its financial statement, which then allows the bank to look for more credit card customers. That’s one reason why you get so many credit card offers.

Wall Street apparently takes and then forgets, and then comes after the guns of law-abiding American citizens and small businesses.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

India’s trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it’s going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you’ll never see it.

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can’t afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

The biggest and most deadly ‚tax‘ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

We’re still in a recession. We’re not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That’s a statement in and of itself.

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

My task over the last two years hasn’t just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

The dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

And what’s interesting, and I don’t think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

Until we have comprehensive financial education, we’ll never see the end of our booms and busts.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

I will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital – in some cases, overcome, though all figures are dubious for these secret and often illegal operations.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

Foreigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

Economy’s got to get moving, we’ve got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.