Barack Obama actually said...

I did not run for the presidency to fulfill some long-held ambition or because I believed it was somehow owed to me.

Because we are at a defining moment in our history.

Don't, you know, try something different because, you know, that's going to be too risky. You know, you don't know what you might get. So ev...

We have the chance, maybe for the first time in a generation, to finally come together and start tackling problems that were there long befo...