Barack Obama actually said...

"We're beginning to break free from the partisanship and the petty bickering that have stood in the way of progress for so long."

"The future belongs to the nation that best educates its people, period."

"use only one test when deciding what ideas to support with your precious tax dollars. It is not whether an idea is liberal or conservative, but whether it works."

"I continue to believe, based on what I have heard, that there was an overreaction in pulling Professor Gates out of his home to the station."