Barack Obama actually said...

And we're going to keep doing everything we can to help our businesses take the baton and power our recovery today and lead us to a more hop...

I call upon the citizens of our Nation to pray, or otherwise give thanks, in accordance with their own faiths and consciences.

Let us remember in our thoughts and prayers those suffering from natural disasters in Haiti, Chile, and elsewhere.

I refuse to accept any number of miner deaths as simply the cost of mining.