Barack Obama actually said...

"I urge all of us not to make the perfect the enemy of the absolutely necessary."

"I believe that legislation of this enormous magnitude, that by necessity we are moving quickly. We are not moving quickly because we are trying to jam something down people's throats, we're moving qui..."

"This is not my assessment. This is not Nancy Pelosi's assessment. This is the assessment of the best economists in the country."

"the president believes he will have the votes he needs to pass the Senate stimulus bill by the end of this week."