Barack Obama actually said...

"I think that it is important for us to find out exactly what happened in Benghazi, and I'm happy to cooperate in any ways that Congress wants."

"You have never seen in the history of the United States the debt ceiling or the threat of not raising the debt ceiling being used to extort a president or a governing party and trying to force issues ..."

"My biggest priority now is bringing these folks to justice."

"the financial brinkmanship that was taking place. He called it terrifying, and it should not be tied to ideological arguments."