Barack Obama actually said...

"Withdrawal sent to the Senate: Richard Sorian, of New York, to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, vice Christina H. Pearson, resigned."

"Kevin McNulty, of New Jersey, to be United States District Judge for the District of New Jersey."

"Education must be our national mission."

"John Thomas Fowlkes, Jr., of Tennessee, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee."