Posted on 08/10/2011 2:45:04 PM PDT by Starman417
President Obama: "It's been a long, tough journey. But we have made some incredible strides together. Yes, we have. But the thing that we all ought to remember is that as much as good as we have done, precisely because the challenges were so daunting, precisely because we we were inheriting so many challenges, that we're not even halfway there yet. When I said `change we can believe in,' I didn't say `change we could believe in tomorrow.' Not change we can believe in next week. We knew this was going to take time because we've got this big, messy, tough democracy.”
President Barack Obama: "So, when Congress gets back in September I want to move quickly on things that will help the economy create jobs right now. Extending the payroll tax credit to put a thousand dollars in the pocket of the average American worker. Extending unemployment insurance to help people get back on their feet. Putting construction workers back to work rebuilding America."
WH press secretary Jay Carney: “The White House doesn’t create jobs.”
Obama: "My singular focus is the American people. Getting the unemployed back on the job."
Chris Matthews: “If Boeing doubled its contract with Air Force planes, that would be great news in Seattle and some other areas where they're operating. In Houston, it's space. In the southwest of Virginia, it's Bobby Byrd! Jack Murtha in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Why do people have this disconnect? They know that the government creates jobs. Every time in our life, we know that WWII saved us economically. All our experience locally and historically is the government creates jobs. And then you hear Eric Cantor, with this new cant of his, this religious notion of some kind, that somehow this belief in small business means that government shouldn't do anything. Small business is the area of the economy that does best when government spends money. What's he talking about? ...We studied this in school, we learn it from history.”
White House press secretary Jay Carney: "Over the past weeks and months the President repeatedly called for substantial deficit reduction through both long-term entitlement changes and revenues through tax reform, with additional measures to spark jobs and strengthen our recovery. That is why the President pushed for a grand bargain that would include all of these elements and require compromise and cooperation from all sides." The key word here is revenue; I don’t recall any specifics from Obama about entitlement reform, apart from him mentioning that he might look at means testing.
Christine Romer, President Obama's first chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, on the credit downgrading of the U.S.: “[The U.S. is] pretty darn f___ed."
Claire McCaskill: “There is a philosophical difference between Democrats and Republicans and it is pretty simple: they have voted to keep giving tax check to billionairs while they voted to convert medicare to a voucher system. How can you be more willing topush money—public money—to the most profitable corporations and, at the same time, you are willing to dismantle medicare.”
Senate majority leader Harry Reid: "It`s been a pretty hard work period we've had. The last two weekends, working late. And I think the Senate deserves to be able to go home as soon as we can. If there was ever a time we need to work with our constituents, it's now. And for me personally, I've been here for a long time. I have a home in Nevada that I haven't seen in months. My pomegranate trees are, I'm told, are blossoming - there's pomegranates on them, I have some fig trees, roses and stuff that I just haven't seen. So I have constituents that I'm anxious to see, friends I'm eager to visit with, relatives I need to visit with. So as soon as we can complete our work, I would like to move as quick as I can to the summer recess period."
Joe Biden to Gabby Giffords: "Now we're both members of the `Cracked Head Club.'" Ms. Giffords had been shot in the head in Arizona and had come to the House to vote on the compromise bill.
Former presidential candidate John Kerry: “And I have to tell you, I say this to you politely. The media in America has a bigger responsibility than it's exercising today. The media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody asserts it or simply because somebody says something which everybody knows is not factual. It doesn't deserve the same credit as a legitimate idea about what you do. And the problem is everything is put into this tit-for-tat equal battle and America is losing any sense of what's real, of who's accountable, of who is not accountable, of who's real, who isn't, who's serious, who isn't?” So, it is the news’s job and moral duty to see that some viewpoints are not given much air time. You never hear a conservative say this. In fact, I feature more liberals than anyone else on this Say What? column. I want everyone to know what they say; I want liberals I know to hear what they say.
Justin Ruben, executive director of MoveOn.org: "It's hard to see how we avoid a Tea-Party recession if the president who has the biggest megaphone in the country is not willing to speak clearly on the issue."
Actor Matt Damon: “I really don’t mind paying more taxes.”
Hillary Clinton: "Like it or hate it, it is really effective. In fact, viewership of Al-Jazeera is going up in the United States because it is real news. You may not agree with it, but you feel like you're getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff that we do on our news that is not particularly informative to us, let alone foreigners."
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