• "We are going through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression."

• "Senator McCain's absolutely right that we need more responsibility, but we need it not just when there's a crisis."

• "There are folks out there who've been struggling before this crisis took place."

• "Have no doubt about the magnitude of this crisis. And we're not talking about failure of institutions on Wall Street. We're talking about failures on Main Street."

• "This isn't the beginning of the end of this crisis. This is the end of the beginning, if we come out with a package that will keep these institutions stable."