Firsts Quote by Jim Cooper

Let's stop for a second and remember where we were eight years ago [in 2008]. We had the worst financial crisis, the Great Recession,…

— Hillary Clinton

I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle…

— Marty Meehan

September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.

— Ben Bernanke

[I]n America, at least, we have a pretty good record for behaving in a fiscally responsible fashion, with one exception - namely, the fiscal…

— Paul Krugman

An economy in which most citizens are doing worse year after year - an economy like America's - is not likely to do well…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The United States has been becoming worse year after year after year for decades, and it's guaranteed to continue down that path if we…

— David Swanson

The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare…

— Bobby Scott

Federal spending is atrocious.

— Jason Chaffetz

I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was…

— Olympia Snowe

Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and…

— Ron Fournier

When my husband was president, we went from a $300 billion deficit to a $200 billion surplus and we were actually on the path…

— Hillary Clinton