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In the best of years, millions of jobs are lost.

I've been a politician long enough to know that every year will find us living in a situation that one couldn't have imagined a year previously. Sometimes it's better than we imagined, sometimes it's not as good.

But this country is a great country and will always rebound.

Some years you have good years, some years you don't.

Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.

I don't know anybody who doesn't have a lost decade.

I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it.

A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.