Barack Obama actually said...

"America is a country that hasn't come easily. In our brief history, we have been tested by revolution and slavery, war and depression, and great movements for social, civil, and equal rights."

"The price of our progress has always been borne by the struggle and sacrifice of our people - by leaders who have asked ordinary Americans to do extraordinary things."

"A clean, secure energy future will take another American miracle. It will require a historic effort on the scale of what we saw in those factories during World War II."

"For the very resource that has fueled our way of life over the last hundred years now threatens to destroy it if our generation does not act now and act boldly."