ROBERT GIBBS

Investing in auto companies and ensuring a financial collapse didn't lead not from a recession to a great depression may not have been the most popular thing to do, but it was the right thing to do.

Statements of honesty in Washington can only go so far when you are employed.

I think the minimum wage will be the centerpiece of the State of Union. I think it should be the centerpiece of the State of the Union. And it should be very focused on that because, as you said, Republicans in the rest of the country are for it.

It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid

I think the president's quite comfortable being the underdog. I think he's happy to run this race from - as if he were behind the whole time.

I hear these people saying [Barack Obama]'s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested. I mean, it's crazy.

So we should all, me included, stop fighting each other and arguing about our differences on certain policies.

We do not sponsor any form of terrorism anywhere in the world. Never have, never will

It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with.

I think people are going to have a choice to make in the fall. But I think there's no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to gain control. There's no doubt about that.

So we should all, me included, stop fighting each other and arguing about our differences on certain policies.

Investing in auto companies and ensuring a financial collapse didn't lead not from a recession to a great depression may not have been the most popular thing to do, but it was the right thing to do.

It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with.

I think people are going to have a choice to make in the fall. But I think there's no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to gain control. There's no doubt about that.

I am happy with what I do. I'd love to be the manager of the Atlanta Braves, but they hired somebody this week. So I'll just have to be inordinately happy with one of the best jobs on the planet.

I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent teacher layoffs a bailout - but I know that's not a view held by many, nor were the views I was frustrated about.

Statements of honesty in Washington can only go so far when you are employed.

I think the president's quite comfortable being the underdog. I think he's happy to run this race from - as if he were behind the whole time.

We're just going to go straight beer. No sense in diluting it.

It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid

I hear these people saying [Barack Obama]'s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested. I mean, it's crazy.

There's no safer investment in the world than in the United States.

I think the minimum wage will be the centerpiece of the State of Union. I think it should be the centerpiece of the State of the Union. And it should be very focused on that because, as you said, Republicans in the rest of the country are for it.

We do not sponsor any form of terrorism anywhere in the world. Never have, never will