The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis. That's considerable in a country that's used to being protected.

A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing repair of the financial system.

Managing and navigating through a financial crisis is no fun at all.

There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.

You raise taxes during an economic crisis time, as we did in - back in the time of Herbert Hoover, you send the country into a depression.