But we've weathered the storm and become a higher-profile company than when we came in.
We were in a much different economic situation when we came in here.
When we came in, if you remember back to a year ago, we were losing close to 800, 000 jobs a month.
And remember, that first month, I believe it was January of 2009 when we came in, 740, 000 jobs lost in just one month.
"We're learning, it was the same against South Africa two weeks ago when we came in at half-time feeling very positive, " Roberts added.
And our hope was, when we came in, in the midst of crisis, that we could get all parties to come together to focus on these challenges.
When we came in, for all the talk about how we were going to take care of veterans, the truth was the backlogs were so bad and a lot of the facilities for veterans were just not up to snuff.
So when we came in to office, we focused not just on rescuing our economy in the short run, but rebuilding our economy for the long run -- creating an economy that lifts up all Americans. (Applause.) Not just some, but all.
When we came to office in June 2001, we appointed an independent fiscal-review panel.
When we came upon a hamlet in such deep mountains, it seemed almost mysterious.
When we came together, when our conference came together to talk about it, as we talked and we brought in other people to help us figure out what went wrong, we came away from that learning that what had happened to the Republicans is we've lost our brand.
"We've had our opportunities in both Tests and when the big moments came up we haven't been good enough to put the nails in the coffin, " he said.
"When we came to our end point in Tahiti the captain and I just wanted to keep on to New Zealand, " Olav told reporters at the time.
As I said, when I came in, we were losing 750, 000 jobs a month and the economy was contracting at about 6 percent, which is just a huge contraction.
When we first started working on the Recovery Act last winter, we had two objectives in mind when it came to education.
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When we came back we saw lots of shoes in the water and lots of rubbish.
"When I came to Japan in 1995 we had to play 20% of our games at a neutral ground, " he added.
But when my administration came into office, we put in place rigorous rules for accountability and transparency, which cut the cost of the bailout dramatically.
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They need to extend the tuition tax credit that we put in place when I first came into office that saves middle-class families thousands of dollars.
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And in fact, when we came into office, the Pakistanis had agreed to an ill-conceived peace agreement with the Pakistani Taliban that was consistently and persistently expanding their territorial reach.
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Our campaigner in Paris identified the spam and when our tech team came online in New York this morning we took the necessary steps to disable the page.
Perhaps in poor judgment, when the bird came around again, we allowed our eldest son to outstretch his delicate arm in acceptance.
So one of my biggest priorities when I came in was, how do we reform the system overall?
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There were already 10, 000 more nurses working in the NHS than when we came to office, he said.
But I remember one day when we returned to the apartment and she wasn't waiting in the hallway as we came up the stairs.
My hope when I came into office was, because we were in crisis, that the other side would respond by saying now is the time for all of us to pull together.
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