Barack Obama actually said...

"Today, President Obama is directing his economic team and Cabinet to put forward an unprecedented, coordinated Administration-wide effort at using our resources at home and abroad to bring new job cre..."

"Nobody who works full-time in America should have to live in poverty."

"I am calling for significant investments to modernize our nation's infrastructure."

"After decades in which the minimum wage has eroded in value, President Obama is calling on Congress to raise the minimum wage to the level it was at the beginning of the Reagan Administration in 1981."