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

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

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

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

I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I’m still sort of an invalid now.

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

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

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

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

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

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.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

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

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

When I was born, the economy wasn’t in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

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

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

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.

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?‘

During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That’s because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

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.

Deflation isn’t good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

No one saw the recession coming.

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.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money… but city and state governments cannot.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?

I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don’t.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

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

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven’t heard of anyone who’s got better from Alzheimer’s.

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

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they’re learned to do more with less, and so they don’t hire.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

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?

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college.

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

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

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

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

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

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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.

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