Obama: ‘the roof’s leaking, the boiler’s out…’

The quotes of the day:

"I think that we have stepped. back from the abyss.  I think we’ve put out the fire.  The analogy I use sometimes is, we had this beautiful house.  And there was a fire.  We came in and we had to hose it down.  The fire is now out, but what we’ve discovered is, we need some new tuckpointing, the roof’s leaking, the boiler’s out, oh, and by the way, we’re way behind on our mortgage." — President Barack Obama, choosing a metaphor for the economy, in interview with PBS' Jim Lehrer

"The President attacks me and even Democrat critics of his healthcare takeover because his plan can't pass on the merits." — Senator Jim Demint, R-South Carolina, who has told fellow Republicans that health care could be Obama's "Waterloo", in a Twitter message to ABC's Jake Tapper

"All around I think it is a really great, great accomplishment." — California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, after lawmakers cobbled together a deal to close a $26.3 gap in the state's budget

“I still recall sitting on my grandfather's shoulders when those capsules would land in the middle of the Pacific and they'd get brought back and we'd go out and we'd pretend like they could see us as we were waving at folks coming home.  And I remember waving American flags and my grandfather telling me that the Apollo mission was an example of how Americans can do anything they put their minds to.” — President Obama, telling the three Apollo 11 astronauts and a White House audience what he recalls of watching the lunar landing from Hawaii, forty years ago