Barack Obama actually said...

"Now you can call it class warfare all you want, but asking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary in taxes? Most Americans would call that common sense."

"I'm asking Congress to eliminate the billions in taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies."

"We subsidized oil companies for a century. That's long enough. It's time to end the giveaways -- to an industry that rarely has been more profitable and double down on a clean industry that has never ..."

"We are not going to settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well while a growing number of Americans barely get by."