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If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.

We absolutely look at larger trends and reactions on Twitter here at the White House.

I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.

A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street.

These are people who don't believe the government can possibly get too big. It's not possible for it to get too big. It's not possible for the government to get too powerful. It's not possible. And yet they are worried at the 'New York Times' about what is happening to it under the guidance of the presidency and Mr. Obama.

It's a strong country, but Mr. Obama seems to be doing everything he can to hold it back.

We have been dealt a very weak hand by the financial market meltdown, bailouts, and recession. We can't act like it's a strong one.

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

We are a Republic with different branches of government, and so the Senate and the House are going to be full partners in working with the White House.