Barack Obama actually said...

"There is established the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling."

"We know that our dependence on foreign oil endangers our security and our economy."

"Today the House Administration Committee took another important step toward putting in place critical protections to control the flood of special interest money into American elections."

"Our goal is not to punish the banks, but to protect the larger economy and the American people from the kind of upheavals that we've seen in the past few years."