Barack Obama actually said...

"These funds will assist Afghans and Iraqis in protecting and sustaining their infrastructure and building their capacity for more responsive and transparent governance."

"Every program that currently exists under the Federal budget... would be swept aside by the cost of health care if we do nothing."

"The national emergency declared on June 26, 2008, and the measures adopted on that date to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond June 26, 2009."

"The status quo is untenable."