All Quotes

President Obama can talk about having no grand schemes and making no big gains, but the reality is he can't get anything of significance through Congress.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.
‐‐ Valerie Jarrett

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.
‐‐ Lindsey Graham

President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.
‐‐ Paul Ryan

President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate us, and when we get down to only half, let's have a ball. I'll blow up the balloons myself.
‐‐ Paula Poundstone

President Obama decided to prematurely withdraw from Iraq for no other reason than politics. The artificial deadline for withdrawal was not determined for strategic goals but rather for a political one - his reelection timetable.
‐‐ Michael Ramirez

President Obama did something that no Democrat's done since Franklin Roosevelt: that is, get a majority vote in Ohio twice. So I don't really buy that his policy is that unpopular.
‐‐ Sherrod Brown

President Obama had a few historians at the White House for a couple of dinners. I was lucky enough to be one of those asked, and he was very interested in Ronald Reagan, and I came away feeling that.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

President Obama had voiced strong support for the effort in Afghanistan during his campaign, pledging to add two brigades, which he did. But since the inauguration... the administration had signaled that the U.S. commitment needed careful assessment, and we needed to recalibrate the strategy and objectives.
‐‐ Stanley A. McChrystal

President Obama has a good sense not just of the economic requisites for financial crisis firefighting but also how you build political support for moving forward on reforming the financial system, making sure that the banks are carrying enough capital.
‐‐ Lael Brainard

President Obama has a strong record of doing what is best for America and Florida, and he built it by spending more time worrying about what his decisions would mean for the people than for his political fortunes.
‐‐ Charlie Crist

President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it.
‐‐ David Limbaugh

President Obama has adopted a practice of picking and choosing which laws he wants to enforce. In most cases, his laws of choice conveniently coincide with his administration's political agenda.
‐‐ Tom Rice

President Obama has almost doubled our national debt to more than $19 trillion, and growing. And yet, what do we have to show for it? Our roads and bridges are falling apart, our airports are in Third World condition, and forty-three million Americans are on food stamps.
‐‐ Donald Trump

President Obama has already ended Medicare as we know it.
‐‐ Phil Gingrey

President Obama has asked me to chair his new President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
‐‐ Jeffrey R. Immelt

President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think in the financial crisis that's been a shame.
‐‐ Glenn Hubbard

President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do.
‐‐ Rob Portman

President Obama has been clear about the future that the United States seeks... when it comes to the Asia-Pacific, the United States is 'all in.'
‐‐ Thomas E. Donilon

President Obama has been very clear as he laid out the goal, and the objective is to close Guantanamo.
‐‐ Cliff Sloan

President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and regulatory barriers that hold women back at local, state and national levels.
‐‐ Lael Brainard

President Obama has contempt for real money.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

President Obama has continually put off the deadline for implementation of Obamacare thanks to hang-ups in the system.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

President Obama has created the image of an America under President Bush that routinely violated international law.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

President Obama has decided to have the United Nations review the law of Arizona. You have got to be kidding! We're now going to have countries like Cuba, Libya and Uganda sitting in judgment on Arizona's laws? Enough is enough!
‐‐ Russell Pearce

President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he has brought about in the disastrous economy he inherited.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz

President Obama has expressed his commitment to responsible stewardship of our land, water, and other natural resources. And one way of restoring the land to its natural condition is what we are doing here today - breaking pavement for the People's Garden.
‐‐ Tom Vilsack

President Obama has greatly contributed to Israel's security.
‐‐ Moshe Kahlon

President Obama has his faults, but overall, I think, is a good president.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

President Obama has ignored or dismissed proposals that would address our anti-competitive tax code and unsustainable trajectory of federal debt - including his own bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform - and submitted no plan for entitlement reform.
‐‐ Glenn Hubbard

President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.
‐‐ Eric Alterman

President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda.
‐‐ Thomas Perez

President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
‐‐ John O. Brennan

President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care and concern and the respect they deserve. That is how an exceptional nation says thank you to its most exceptional men and women.
‐‐ John F. Kerry

President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.
‐‐ Liya Kebede

President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military attack against our enemies, regardless of the risks and collateral damage, so long as it is over by the time I have to announce it.'
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

President Obama has not only failed to uphold several of our nation's laws, he has vowed to continue to do so in order to enact his unpopular agenda.
‐‐ Ron DeSantis

President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and Obamacare. Both are massively unpopular. The stimulus package launched the Tea Party movement. Obamacare led to the Republican wipeout of 2010.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs.
‐‐ John Sununu

President Obama has regularly granted special access to reporters who give him preferential coverage.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

President Obama has repeatedly urged Congress to let the Bush tax cuts expire for those earning more than $250,000 a year. Increasing rates on top earners is an obvious way to raise revenue from those who can afford it most.
‐‐ Christina Romer

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.
‐‐ David Petraeus

President Obama has shown he has the vision to support average consumers and taxpayers.
‐‐ Austin Ligon

President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn't even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level.
‐‐ Bob Beauprez

President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

President Obama helped move this country forward.
‐‐ Tony Cardenas

President Obama himself has attributed the legitimacy of the Jewish State not to its historic identity as Jewish territory, but to the Holocaust.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

President Obama inherited a broken country mired in two wars, a financial crisis, a mortgage mess and more than we all probably even know about and has in my opinion brought us back from the brink. But I still see my friends in no better shape and the gap widening.
‐‐ Don Cheadle