Clear Quote by Russell Baker

In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and…

— Tom Vilsack

From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to use Americas…

— Jeb Hensarling

But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.

— Steny Hoyer

President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me now. No president, not me, not any of my predecessors,…

— William J. Clinton

Barack Obama is a president who, when he had to deal with the 2008 economic crisis, has led the American economy on a completely…

— Alexis Tsipras

President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me, now. No president - no president, not me, not any…

— William J. Clinton

Barack Obama took office in the middle of a massive financial crisis. He was handed a bunch of messes all around the world and…

— Jon Lovett

When you inherit the level of economic catastrophe that President Obama inherited, it was a real touch-and-go situation.

— Hillary Clinton

Beside the two wars he inherited in Iraq and Afghanistan, and promised to end, a financial crisis at home had pushed the United States…

— Barack Obama

Barack Obama came into office in the midst of an economic crisis and yet, shortly into his first term, Republicans suddenly rediscovered the urgent…

— Neera Tanden

That was an exception within the [Barack] Obama administration's economic policy, a crisis that he inherited from the previous administration, and felt it was…

— Judy Woodruff

Like other presidents before him, Barack Obama inherited a recession. But unlike them, he has made it worse, not better.

— Mitt Romney