So here we are, back where we were two years ago.
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So the greater challenge that faces us is not just going back to where we were back in 2007, not just settling to get back to where we were before the crisis hit.
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And some of the Republican proposals would take it back -- as a percentage of GDP -- back to where we were back in the 1920s.
However, I'm not sure we're quite back to where we were a few weeks ago.
But what we tried to do was not just get back to where we were before the crisis.
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All of you believe we can do all these things, because just think back to where we were standing four years ago.
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It's not enough just to recover and get back to where we were before the crisis.
So again, our mission is not just to get back to where we were before the crisis.
And our challenge right now is not just to settle for getting back to where we were in 2008.
That means 7.8 million jobs need to be created to get back to where we were at the end of 2007.
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There is no doubt that if you look back to where we were a year ago, we were discussing the depth of economic -- the depth of job loss.
Let's quickly introduce the panel members and get their take on the question of when unemployment gets back to where we were when we started this recession at just under 5 percent.
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"It's going to take years to get us back to where we were, " said Vourderis, standing over hundreds of mint-green quarters that were oxidized so severely that banks won't accept them without first having them cleaned in bleach.
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"It's a tough time for the club and I back the players they've got now to push the club back to hopefully where we were last year, " Cosgrove said.
And what I want to talk about is what we've accomplished, where we were back then, where I think we are now, and where we're going.
And when we look back at both where we are and where we were, we see real, sustained progress.
Since deploying Microsoft Dynamics AX, we have seen a massive reduction from where we were back in 2008.
But back to our senior seminar, where we were to choose our paths, and Anne Marie's path was lids those plastic travel lids you put on your coffee and soda cups.
We recently had a chance to put a Tesla Model S through its paces and we had no problem getting where we were going -- and back again -- despite our testing happening in Upstate New York in the middle of a rather chilly January.
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Is the biggest idea to unscramble this and take us back to a world where we had a functioning market and markets were not nearly as complex?
It's widely recognized to have broken the back of the recession, to have reversed the situation where we were losing jobs at a rate of 750, 000 per month to one where we've created over 4.2 million private sector jobs.
The problem began when we decided to drive not back south, where the temperatures were warmer, but north, where the roads were caked with ice.
We can blame the Republicans for obstructionism when we do not lower rates on the middle class back to where they were.
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People who did that, unfortunately, were the ones that sold near the bottom in 2008 and 2009, and they are still the ones trying to get back in when the market is 70% or 80% higher than where we were.
We ran from the beach back to my house where my sister and her children were waiting for us.
We had to go back and forth from the conference center, where the meetings were held, to the hotel.
So this, in many ways, is trying to bring us back to a good century ago, how we designed and built cities where we had landscapes which were far less reliant on cars and much more transit-oriented forms of development.
Suddenly we were confronted with seats where one's nose was almost touching the back of the seat in front, and where the ability to stretch out in a reclining position was non-existent.
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