You Are The Most Powerful Cultural Force

I Don't Like To Use The Word Sacrifice.

On The Glass-steagall Thing, Like I Said, If You Could Demonstrate To Me That It Was A Mistake, I'd Be Glad To Look At The Evidence. But I Can't Blame [the Republicans]. This Wasn't Something They Forced Me Into. I Really Believed That Given The Level Of Oversight Of Banks And Their Ability To Have More Patient Capital, If You Made It Possible For [banks] To Go Into The Investment Banking Business As Continental European Investment Banks Could Always Do, That It Might Give Us A More Stable Source Of Long-term Investment.

What We Need To Do Is To Have A Sensible Approach To Immigration. It Needs To Be Open. It Needs To Be Non-dogmatic And Non-bigoted. We Need To Be Firm But Reasonable In The Way We Deal With The Problem Of Illegal Immigration. And We Need To Try To Get As Many Of Our Immigrants Who Want To Do So To Become Citizens As Quickly As Possible So That The American People Will All See That This Is A Part Of The Process Of American History, Which Is A Good One For Our Country.

Over The Past 7 Years, We've Tried To Modernize The Economy, And Today What We're Doing Is Modernizing The Financial Services Industry, Tearing Down These Antiquated Walls, And Granting Banks Significant New Authority.

I Can Spend Your Money Better Than You Can.