Barack Obama actually said...

"I'm going to create jobs. The credit markets are going to start operating efficiently. and you're going to see signs that the economy is going to stop contracting."

"What I've been concerned about is some of the language that's been used suggesting that this is full of pork and this is wasteful government spending."

"More than 90 percent of the jobs created by this plan will be in the private sector. They're not going to be make-work jobs, but jobs doing the work that America desperately needs done."

"It's a little hard for me to take criticism from folks about this recovery package, after they have presided over a doubling of the national debt. I'm not sure they have a lot of credibility when it c..."