Interesting. I follow macroeconomic forecasts and reporting pretty closely and I don't think that ever happened or that you can source a quote anything like that. I think that in part because quarterly GDP growth was over 3% about multiple times during the Obama administration, including growth of 5.2% in Q3 of 2014.
Of course, as I've said multiple times, the president has almost no impact on quarterly GDP and statements made otherwise are pure suckerbait. Obama deserves credit for managing a holistic policy of holding off a deflationary collapse over a sustained period of risk, and the policy came at an immense price. What the administration is doing now is eating seed corn that we will miss sorely during the next cyclical recession, and is very close to the magic beans bullshit of modern monetary theory embraced by the likes of Sanders and AOC. Sadly, it suprises me zero that you are bought in on this nonsense, or that you are repeating an imaginary quote.