From an AP news report this morning. Said during an interview:

"I'm a free market guy," Bush said. "But I'm not going to let this
economy crater in order to preserve the free market system. So we made
a lot of very strong moves and it's been painful for a lot of people,
particularly because, you know, this — the excesses of the past have
caused a lot of folks to hurt when it comes to, like, their 401(k)'s
or, you know, their jobs."


--riverman