Barack Obama actually said...

"It will mean everything is subject to the most partisan of politics, everything, and our democracy will ultimately suffer as well."

"four and a half years ago, when Republicans refused to hold a hearing on an upward down vote from Merrick Garland, they invented the principle that the Senate shouldn't fill an open seat on the Suprem..."

"Our democracy is a precious thing, and it's up to all of us to protect it."

"As William Faulkner once wrote, the past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past."