Barack Obama actually said...

"The violence that occurred in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, just a few months ago, should remind us that we can't take our democracy for granted."

"Right now, at least, Republicans in the Senate are lining up to try to use the filibuster to stop the 'For the People Act' from even being debated."

"In the aftermath of an insurrection, with our democracy on the line, and many of these same Republican senators going along with the notion that somehow there were irregularities and problems with leg..."

"We didn’t run in that campaign last year, in 2008, to occupy this office. We ran to do something with it."