Barack Obama actually said...

"We will stop outsourcing services that should be performed by the government, open up the contracting process to small businesses."

"I'm proud that we passed a recovery plan free of earmarks. And I want..."

"Over the last eight years, government spending on contracts has doubled to over half a trillion dollars. Far too often the spending is plagued by massive cost overruns, outright fraud and the absence ..."

"We thought it was important for us to be able to step back for a moment and remind ourselves that we have things in common: family, friends, laughter."