"But what's clear is that we're headed in the right direction.  A year and a half ago, this economy was shrinking rapidly.  The economy is now growing.  A year and a half ago, we were losing jobs every month in the private sector.  We've now added private sector jobs for seven months in a row.  And that means the worst mistake we could make is to go back to doing what we were doing that got us into the mess that we were in.  We can't turn back.  We've got to keep going forward.  We've got to keep going forward.  (Applause.)."  President Obama, August 16, 2010.