Barack Obama actually said...

"All of these decisions will be based on the science and what's best for the people of the Gulf."

"Washington has spent an inordinate amount of time on politics -- who's up, who's down -- and not enough on how are we delivering for the American people."

"I think if you look at the vast majority of Americans, even those who are dissatisfied with the pace of progress, they'll say that the policies that got us into this mess, we can't go back to."

"If we started seeing, for example, a wrenching reversal in investment, we could end up having problems."