Barack Obama actually said...

"If you're willing to work hard, you should have the chance to get ahead."

"I need all of you to tell the Senate: Put those teachers back to work."

"What I say to the American people is that we are moving in the right direction, it is going to take time to heal all the problems that exist out there."

"I think that after two-and-a-half, three years of elevated unemployment, home values declining substantially, people feeling as if everything they've worked for is still leaving them vulnerable..."