"We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass.There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve."

"If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it."

"One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today."

"Look, the, the - this country has not lived within its means for a very long time, and, and the truth is we're going to have to take our medicine."

"But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to figure out what would have happened? We avoided - and all economists will tell you that millions of jobs were saved because of the Recovery Act, and we avoided a second Great Depression. That, that is a reality."