Barack Obama actually said...

"I refuse to accept any number of miner deaths as simply the cost of mining."

"I call upon the citizens of our Nation to pray, or otherwise give thanks, in accordance with their own faiths and consciences."

"And we're going to keep doing everything we can to help our businesses take the baton and power our recovery today and lead us to a more hopeful and more prosperous set of days in the future."

"Let us remember in our thoughts and prayers those suffering from natural disasters in Haiti, Chile, and elsewhere."