Barack Obama Quotes About Financial Crisis

• There was a time when if you had a financial crisis in Southeast Asia somewhere, it had no impact on our markets. Today it does.

  Barack Obama

  Impact, Doe, Today

  Source: time.com

• If you look at what happened, I came in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And unlike Franklin Delano Roosevelt who waited, well, didn't take office until about three years into the Great Depression, it was happening just as I was elected.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Office, Three

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• Beside the two wars he inherited in Iraq and Afghanistan, and promised to end, a financial crisis at home had pushed the United States to the brink of another Great Depression. When we spoke with the new president in March of 2009, the economy was losing 800,000 jobs a month, the government was throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at failing banks, and the auto industry was on the verge of collapse. Politically pummeled from all sides, Obama did his best to keep a sense of humor.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, War, Home

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• Unless we are holding ourselves accountable day in, day out, not just when there's a crisis for folks who have power and influence and can hire lobbyists, but for the nurse, the teacher, the police officer, who, frankly, at the end of each month, they've got a little financial crisis going on. They're having to take out extra debt just to make their mortgage payments. We haven't been paying attention to them. And if you look at our tax policies in America, it's a classic example.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Nurse, Police

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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