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I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation.

We have spent our time in government fixing the economy.

What we collectively decide about how to bail out our economy, how to pull our economy out of a ditch and what rules we put in place to make sure this problem does not happen again, will shape our country for the next 50 years. This is it.

It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.'

So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized.

The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.

I take very seriously our responsibility to keep a strong economy.

We will do everything to change what needs to be changed, fight against recession so that the country meets its targets, while reinforcing our country in the heart of the euro and the European Union.

I will continue to stay very focused on the economy.

If all you think we need to do to get this economy going and get this country on the right track is to cut government and reduce taxes, you don't understand America. America is a moral enterprise, not an economic enterprise.