Barack Obama actually said...

"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."

"I intend to fight obstruction with action and I will oppose any effort to return to the very same policies that brought on this economic crisis in the first place."