Barack Obama actually said...

"We've got an extraordinary economic challenge ahead of us."

"I think the notion that somehow the Commerce Secretary is not going to be central to everything we do is fundamentally mistaken."

"We are in one of those periods in American history where we don't have Republican and Democratic problems. We've got American problems."

"I strongly believe that a President or a President-elect or his team should be able to do more than one thing at a time."