Barack Obama actually said...

It's time to start rebuilding here at home, time for nation-building right here.

This is not just a numbers debate, this is a values debate.

We will also be mortgaging our future and it will be irresponsible if, in the process of reducing our deficit, we sacrifice those very thing...

We ran because we believed in an economy that didn't just work for those at the top, but worked for everybody.