In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises.

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and serious global efforts with respect to common problems even as we support every nation's right to chart its own course.