Barack Obama actually said...

"this appointment of Sonia Sotomayor to the bench is one of the crown jewels of his accomplishments."

"If you have tilted, skewed, politically gerrymandered, uncompetitive districts, that's going to attract candidates who are more extreme and only care about firing up their base, which means compromise..."

"While our economy may be weakened, and our confidence shaken, we will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before."

"I volunteered for a little more than a year. And it, to me, is kind of the epitome of the American dream."