Barack Obama actually said...

These are America's problems, and we must come together as Americans to meet them with the urgency this moment demands.

The President-Elect's Radio Address

01/02/2009

More Barack Obama Quotes

It is time to act.

There has been a leadership vacuum in Washington, that somebody needed to step in. That Barack Obama needed to take action.

Obama had to signal some sense of leadership on the economy and that's what happened here and the market reacted very positively to it.

I don't have the authority to take over yet.