Barack Obama actually said...

"Ray LaHood Secretary of Labor has said that being the Secretary of Transportation is the best job he ever had in public service."

"These days, that sometimes keeps folks apart, but what always brought Ray and I together was a shared belief that those of us who serve in public service owe their allegiance not to party, but to the ..."

"Our top priority as a nation right now is doing everything we can to grow our economy and create good jobs and rebuild opportunity for the middle class."

"We should be reaching for a level of private and public research and development investment that we haven't seen since the height of the space race."