Barack Obama actually said...

"We are grateful for your friendship, for your leadership."

"I can't think of a better place to come to celebrate the enduring friendship between the German and American people."

"What greater inheritance than to be part of a family that passes on the values of what it means to be a great parent?"

"The cruelty he'd endured in his life didn't make him hard, it made him compassionate, empathetic."