Barack Obama actually said...

"I believe that discrimination because of somebody's sexual orientation or gender identity ran counter to who we are as a people, and it's a violation of the basic tenets on which this nation was found..."

"That's why we're going to keep on fighting until the law no longer treats committed partners who have been together for decades like they're strangers. That's why I have long believed that so-called D..."

"promoting foreign direct investment is an important opportunity to accelerate our economic recovery."

"When innocents are being slaughtered and global security endangered, we don't have to choose between standing idly by or acting on our own."