Barack Obama actually said...

"Right now, the most important task for us is to stabilize the patient. The economy is badly damaged; it is very sick. And so we have to take whatever steps are required to make sure that it is stabili..."

"I think the notion that somehow the Commerce Secretary is not going to be central to everything we do is fundamentally mistaken."

"We are in one of those periods in American history where we don't have Republican and Democratic problems. We've got American problems."

"The most important message today is that the situation is getting worse. We've got to act boldly and we've got to act swiftly."