Barack Obama actually said...

"This debate should not be about scoring political points."

"I'm reminded of what my friend Ab Mikva said about being friends with a politician: It's like having a perpetual child in college."

"The reason you do it, I'd like to think, is a little bit because you like me and you think I'm a pretty good guy."

"It's not a few of us doing well and then the rest of us hoping that we get lucky, but rather, everybody as a team moving this country forward."