Barack Obama actually said...

"Obama had to signal some sense of leadership on the economy and that's what happened here and the market reacted very positively to it."

"I don't have the authority to take over yet."

"She's yet to cite what experience, in fact, prepares her for that 3 a.m. phone call."

"There has been a leadership vacuum in Washington, that somebody needed to step in. That Barack Obama needed to take action."