Barack Obama actually said...

I am very sympathetic to why the German people would be concerned about this.

We are primed to bring back more of the good jobs claimed by the recession and lost to overseas competition in recent decades.

But to make that happen, we're going to have to act: to create good jobs that pay good wages and to offer more Americans a fair shot to get ...

I want to work with Congress this year on proven ways to create jobs, like building infrastructure and fixing our broken immigration system.