Barack Obama actually said...

"I'm asking Congress to eliminate the billions in taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies."

"I'm a Democrat. But I believe what Republican Abraham Lincoln believes. The government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves and no more."

"We subsidized oil companies for a century. That's long enough. It's time to end the giveaways -- to an industry that rarely has been more profitable and double down on a clean industry that has never ..."

"Now you can call it class warfare all you want, but asking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary in taxes? Most Americans would call that common sense."