Barack Obama actually said...

"Because we are at a defining moment in our history."

"We can't afford the same politics of fear that tells Democrats that the only way to look tough on national security is to talk, act, and vote like George Bush Republicans."

"I did not run for the presidency to fulfill some long-held ambition or because I believed it was somehow owed to me."

"We have the chance, maybe for the first time in a generation, to finally come together and start tackling problems that were there long before George Bush ever took office."