Barack Obama actually said...

"We can return to the failed economic policies of the past, or we can keep building a stronger future."

"A tragedy is what the people of the Gulf are going through right now."

"The truth is, from the day we walked into the White House, we knew that the crisis we faced was so severe that it would take months, and even years, to dig ourselves out from one of the worst recessio..."

"Government should live within its means."