Barack Obama actually said...

"He has the capacity, as does Obama, to push things along with the Congress, with the Treasury Department, possibly with the White House, with the automakers."

"Obama had to signal some sense of leadership on the economy and that's what happened here and the market reacted very positively to it."

"I don't have the authority to take over yet."

"There has been a leadership vacuum in Washington, that somebody needed to step in. That Barack Obama needed to take action."