Barack Obama actually said...

"the essence of my patriotism, the belief that America is constantly changing and constantly improving, and we will never be perfect, but we can -- we can move in the direction of perfecting our union."

"I thought that, actually, Governor Bredesen of Tennessee had an interesting proposal, which is, as soon as we finish with the last primary, the superdelegates should schedule to get together, whatever..."

"I think that, as I said yesterday, his biggest failure was not to criticize America, because I think there has always been a tradition of patriotism through dissent."

"My gut tells me that the people who were not going to be voting for me are not going to be voting for me after this speech and, even if they think that I made some good points, there are other reasons..."