Barack Obama actually said...

"As a Nation, we're facing tough choices as we put our fiscal house in order. But I want to be absolutely clear: We cannot and we must not balance the budget on the backs of our veterans."

"The key to our success--as it has always been--will be to compete by developing new products, by generating new industries, by maintaining our role as the world's engine of scientific discovery and te..."

"We have a huge opportunity, at this moment, to bring manufacturing back. But we have to seize it."

"[An] economy built to last demands that we keep doing everything we can to . . . keep strengthening American manufacturing."