Barack Obama actually said...

"the last thing the nation's economy needs is another politically motivated self-inflicted wound."

"the full faith and credit of the United States should not and will not be subject to negotiations."

"I think that it is important for us to find out exactly what happened in Benghazi, and I'm happy to cooperate in any ways that Congress wants."

"You have never seen in the history of the United States the debt ceiling or the threat of not raising the debt ceiling being used to extort a president or a governing party and trying to force issues ..."