Barack Obama actually said...

"what you're now seeing is -- is profit and earning ratios are starting to get to the point where buying stocks is a potentially good deal if you've got a long-term perspective on it."

"My main message to the American people is to just recognize that we dug a very deep hole for ourselves. There were a lot of bad decisions that were made."

"Just for clarity's sake, I think, we said that the president supports the ban. You meant to say he supports overturning the ban."

"I didn't come to Washington to take the easy route or to work for the powerful and the well-connected interests who have run this city for too long. I came here to work for the American people. I came..."