Barack Obama actually said...

"In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."

"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you wil..."

"I've been talking about change this whole election. I talked about it when I was down 20 points in the summer. I talked about it when I was up. And now this change thing is catching on because you not..."

"The real gamble in this election is to have the same old folks doing the same old things over and over and over again and somehow expecting a different result. That's a gamble we cannot take."