Barack Obama actually said...

"How's he doing with the stimulus plan and his early encounter with Washington politics?"

"We should be spending a lot more money trying to figure out how to get our energy policy right than we should on helicopters for the president."

"I mean, I suppose what I could have done is started off with no tax cuts, knowing that I was going to want some and then let them take credit for all of them. And maybe that's the lesson I learned."

"We will do what works."