All Quotes

The Obama administration took rapid and decisive action to restructure GM and Chrysler. Within a fairly short period of time these companies were working effectively again.
‐‐ Austin Ligon

The Obama administration will continue to fight for a comprehensive immigration solution that includes AgJobs and a stable workforce for our farms.
‐‐ Tom Vilsack

The Obama administration would say that if you are a Catholic institution, you can only limit your conscience waivers or exclusions to people of the Catholic Church. That would mean that Catholic institutions couldn't treat people of other religions, and that makes no sense.
‐‐ John Fleming

The Obama camp, the White House, and the media all condemned Romney before they condemned the attacks. Obama thought it more worthwhile to hit Romney for what he was doing than the terrorists for what they did. Romney got hit first.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

The Obama campaign was smarter, quicker on their feet than the Clinton camp.
‐‐ Edward Klein

The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

The Obama economy is great for rich people. It's terrible for everybody else.
‐‐ Rob Portman

The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.
‐‐ Charles Krauthammer

The Obama Justice Department has decided to cease the prosecution of the Muslim Brotherhood's U.S.-based front groups, identified as unindicted coconspirators in the Holy Land Foundation case - the largest terrorism finance case in U.S. history.
‐‐ Trent Franks

The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.
‐‐ Bobby Jindal

The Obama presidency has seen the U.S. military's elite tactical forces increasingly used in an attempt to achieve strategic goals. But with Special Operations missions kept under tight wraps, Americans have little understanding of where their troops are deployed, what exactly they are doing, or what the consequences might be down the road.
‐‐ Nick Turse

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.
‐‐ Benjamin Netanyahu

The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back.
‐‐ Donald Trump

The Obama years will be remembered as a cultural - and legal - tipping point for equality for all people who do not identify as strictly heterosexual, arguably the civil rights movement of our times. The president signed the bill repealing 'don't ask, don't tell.' The Defense of Marriage Act was struck down by the Supreme Court.
‐‐ Charles M. Blow

The Obamacare contraception mandate was never about freedom. It was always about pitting secularism against religion, and using the power of government to sponsor secularism.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.
‐‐ Maureen Dowd

The Obamas have been a great example for the country, and I think people are getting a bit nostalgic for that now when they see what some of the alternatives might be.
‐‐ John Legend

The Obamas have changed the culture of the White House.
‐‐ Dee Dee Myers

The Oberlin/Cleveland area is where the underground railroad came out, so it's an interesting historical place. I love Ohio and really loved Oberlin.
‐‐ Isabel Gillies

The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the 'Times' obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance.
‐‐ Billy Collins

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The object of advertising is to get people to feel better about the product you're selling.
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina

The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.
‐‐ Frank Gaffney

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
‐‐ Robert M. Hutchins

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.
‐‐ Phil Mickelson

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
‐‐ Marcus Aurelius

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
‐‐ George Henry Lewes

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.
‐‐ Simon Greenleaf

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.
‐‐ Ho Chi Minh

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
‐‐ Thomas Babington Macaulay

The object of our prayers should not be to present a wish list or a series of requests but to secure for ourselves and for others blessings that God is eager to bestow, according to His will and timing.
‐‐ David A. Bednar

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
‐‐ Sydney Smith

The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.
‐‐ James Joseph Sylvester

The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and symbolizing our deepest possibilities.
‐‐ Eugene Kennedy

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.
‐‐ Joseph Butler

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.
‐‐ Dean Inge

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities.
‐‐ Rudolf Hiferding

The object of the superior man is truth.
‐‐ Confucius

The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.
‐‐ Simon Cowell

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
‐‐ George S. Patton

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
‐‐ Charles de Secondat

The objectification of females is not a good thing! Not every rapper does this, but when the lyrics focus solely on the strip club, 'poppin' bottles' and how many girls they can 'tap,' it distorts what kids are learning. I think if there was more of a female presence in hip hop we could break up the monotony. It's all about balance.
‐‐ Queen Latifah

The objective is to do things well in London.
‐‐ Dayron Robles

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.
‐‐ Bruce Henderson

The objective of a referee is not to get mentioned. I tell a lot of young referees that not being mentioned is king. If you can achieve that, that then it has been a pretty good game.
‐‐ Alan Lewis