President Obama's own administration has publicly admitted that under the current framework, Syrian refugees cannot be vetted in a way that meets the rigorous security standards we rightfully expect.
‐‐ Scott DesJarlais
President Obama's policies have been categorical failures for our country. Unemployment is over nine percent, our deficits are growing, and small businesses are being burdened with regulations.
‐‐ Timothy Griffin
President Obama's proposal to raise the top rate to 39 percent is equal to the rate under President Clinton in the 1990s when Wall Street reached record high levels and the economy produced lots of jobs.
‐‐ Juan Williams
President Obama's reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud, hanging over the horizon could put almost 44,000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1, national defense is the first priority of the federal government.
‐‐ Paul Ryan
President Obama's reelection started the countdown for lawmakers to address the fiscal cliff and the statutory debt limit. Unless the President and House Republicans can agree on changes to current law, the U.S. economy will be in recession by spring.
‐‐ Mark Zandi
President Obama's respect for the Constitution does not extend to freedom of religion - his administration has forced religious businessowners to pay for insurance plans that cover activities in violation of religious precepts.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro
President Obama's version of America is a divided one - pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed! We are not better off than we were 4 years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or campaign ad can change that.
‐‐ Mia Love
President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!
‐‐ Mitt Romney
President Obama said it best during his state of the Union Address this year when he declared: 'I will go anywhere in the world to open new markets for American products. And I will not stand by when our competitors don't play by the rules.'
‐‐ Ron Wyden
President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell
President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election.
‐‐ Timothy Noah
President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'
‐‐ David Mamet
President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.
‐‐ Valerie Jarrett
President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.
‐‐ Jonathan Kozol
President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things.
‐‐ Maureen Dowd
President Obama, through health care reform, strengthened Medicare. How did he do that? Well, he found savings by cutting subsidies to insurance companies, ensuring we were rooting out waste and fraud, and he used those savings to put it back into Medicare.
‐‐ Stephanie Cutter
President Obama took charge of the Oval Office seven years ago. He promised a positive reset in relations with Russia. But with the radioactive poisoning of a British spy in London, the downing of passenger jets over Europe, and the aggressive advances of Russian forces from Ukraine to Syria, President Putin of Russia has rebuked Mr. Obama.
‐‐ John McLaughlin
President Obama understands that, as a nation founded by those who fled religious persecution, freedom of religion is central to who we are as Americans. Our rights are not given to us by government, they are endowed by our Creator.
‐‐ Denis McDonough
President Obama understands women. He trusts women. And on every issue that matters to us, he stands with women.
‐‐ Cecile Richards
President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
‐‐ Karen Mills
President Obama wants a climate deal and is willing to pay dearly to get it.
‐‐ John Barrasso
President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.
‐‐ Ralph Hall
President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial.
‐‐ Mitt Romney
President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said his job is to 'tell a story to the American people' - as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners?
‐‐ Paul Ryan
President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
‐‐ Irwin Redlener
President Obama was right to ban torture, but the public must understand that this decision carries a potential cost in lost information. That's what makes it a moral choice.
‐‐ David Ignatius
President Obama was right to make enforcement of those trade rules a priority and his creation, today, of a Trade Enforcement Unit is a massive step in the right direction.
‐‐ Ron Wyden
President Obama will go down as having passed some of the most historic bills in the history of this country.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey
President of the United States is you know, our boss, so you know, the President and the First Lady are kinda like the Mom and the Dad of the country. And when your Dad says something you listen.
‐‐ Chris Rock
President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift.
‐‐ Elton Gallegly
President Reagan, expanding on President Lincoln's phrase, referred to America as 'the last, best hope of man on Earth.' But this last, best hope is beginning to fade.
‐‐ Edwin Meese
President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness.
‐‐ Elton Gallegly
President Reagan, Jack Kemp and other advocates of supply-side economics understood that pro-growth tax, spending and economic policies were essential to America's long-term economic and fiscal health.
‐‐ Bob Beauprez
President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
‐‐ Samantha Power
President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.
‐‐ Geraldine Ferraro
President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
‐‐ Ted Cruz
President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.
‐‐ Dennis Hastert
President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially with the lives of military soldiers, Marines, navy.
‐‐ Robert McFarlane
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
‐‐ Ralph Nader
President Reagan was the quintessential Happy Warrior, and no one loves, respects, and admires Reagan more than I do.
‐‐ Monica Crowley
President Ronald Reagan used to speak of the Soviet constitution, and he noted that it purported to grant wonderful rights of all sorts to people. But those rights were empty promises, because that system did not have an independent judiciary to uphold the rule of law and enforce those rights.
‐‐ John Roberts
President Roosevelt's leadership put the world on notice that the United States of America - with the freest, most dynamic economy the world had ever seen - was open for business.
‐‐ John Hoeven
President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to provide for the country's retirement needs, Social Security would need to be supplemented by personal savings accounts.
‐‐ John Doolittle
President Sadat of Egypt made a historic breakthrough in 1977 when he put an end to war and convinced both Egyptians and Israelis that he was ready to make peace. He broke down the walls of suspicion and prejudice.
‐‐ Yitzhak Rabin
President Shimon Peres has embodied a commitment to the mutual values shared by the United States and Israel - values that include the preservation of life, faith, family and freedom.
‐‐ Trent Franks
President Trump will release America's pent-up energy potential, get rid of foreign oil, trash punitive regulations, create millions of jobs, and develop our most strategic geopolitical weapon: crude oil.
‐‐ Harold Hamm
President Yanukovych, the deposed president, essentially, he gutted the Ukrainian military. And so I think we could provide some more assistance to them in that regard.
‐‐ Kelly Ayotte
Presidential and vice-presidential debates are not about campaign staff or consultants, and it is high time we as a people took control and reminded them and their candidates of that important fact.
‐‐ Bob Barr
Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality.
‐‐ Robert Dallek