Barack Obama actually said...

"I think that after two-and-a-half, three years of elevated unemployment, home values declining substantially, people feeling as if everything they've worked for is still leaving them vulnerable..."

"the last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of a recession because that would just suck up."

"It is in our country's national interest to negotiate now with these near neighbors [Cuba and Mexico] to agree on a common, rigorous set of standards, a system for regulatory oversight, and the same o..."

"Even if we don't go into a double dip, what I feel is what the American people feel."