Barack Obama actually said...

"We haven't shown a willingness to engage in the sort of direct negotiations with Iran that would give them carrots and sticks for a change in behavior."

"The vice presidency is the most important decision that I'll make before I'm president. And it's something that I take very seriously."

"This whole notion that I am, you know, shifting to the center or that I'm flip-flopping or this, that, or the other. The people who say this apparently haven't been listening to me."

"When I hear John McCain saying we can't surrender, we can't wave the white flag, nobody is talking about surrender. We're talking about common sense. We cannot be there forever."