Barack Obama actually said...

"As William Faulkner once wrote, the past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past."

"Our democracy is a precious thing, and it's up to all of us to protect it."

"Joe has never lost his sense of why we do this. Memories of his family, the people of Delaware that he represented, his focus is going to be, how's that going to help those people who sent him there?"

"The data shows that we are still enjoying historically low rates of violent crime. What we can't do is cherry-pick data or use anecdotal evidence to drive policy or to feed political agendas."