Barack Obama actually said...

"Barack Obama sort of blew this race wide open in some ways."

"Today, Democratic Senator Barack Obama of Illinois filed papers saying he's forming a presidential exploratory committee."

"Are there any circumstances that you can articulate in which we would say to the Maliki government that enough is enough and we are no longer committing our troops?"

"Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions."