Barack Obama actually said...

"The cynics were wrong because we took an unemployment rate that was at 10 percent and brought it down to 5.1 percent."

"Don't stop now. Let's keep going."

"This is a choice we make."

"If you believed that we could change this country, if we were willing to work together and put aside some of the pettiness and the cynicism—if we could channel the basic decency of the American people..."