Barack Obama actually said...

"Barack Obama, the president, said that he backs it, but there's no timeline. He's going to run into a real obstinate Congress in trying to get that thing passed, and it will be interesting to see how ..."

"I think it's important to understand, and I shared this with President Lee, that American companies and workers are very confident in our ability to compete."

"We weren't going to duplicate what has happened with North Korea in which talks just continue forever without any actual resolution to the issue."

"The thing I want to emphasize is that President Lee and I both agree on the need to break the pattern that has existed in the past, in which North Korea behaves in a provocative fashion; it then is wi..."