"I would push purchasing power - you push out $1,000 of purchasing to those people, it's going to get - it's going to get spent. And it needs to be spent. They need it. And it should come, to some extent, from guys like me."

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Source: Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime. Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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