Barack Obama actually said...

"Let's learn our lessons, lick our wounds, brush ourselves off, and then, we'll get back to work."

"Ultimately, the President is going to be the final decisionmaker."

"I think it's important to give him the room and the space to do that."

"I want you to know, because I've been reading a lot of these reports, this notion that somehow all the work we did suddenly gets stripped away—let me tell you something, we got more done than any admi..."