Barack Obama actually said...

"We've got more work to do than to just try to dig ourselves out of these self-inflicted wounds."

"So far at least, the ideas that the Republicans have proposed asks nothing of the wealthiest Americans or biggest corporations, so the burden is all on first-responders or seniors or middle-class fami..."

"But so far at least the idea that the Republicans have proposed asks nothing of the wealthiest Americans or biggest corporations, so the burden is all on first responders or seniors or middle class fa..."

"he is prepared to submit his own legislation if Congress fails to act."