Top 1200 Obama Administration Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I am confident the Obama administration will work professionally with any Israeli government.

The Obama administration's hostility to school choice programs is well known.

I think we were naive during the first two years of the [Barack] Obama Administration because the Republicans didn't fight us on this point during the 2008 Presidential Election. Obama and McCain both ran on a clean energy platform. But now, uncontested lies have eroded hard-won public understanding. So, we have to go back and make the case again.

The Obama administration has a nasty habit of equating basic conservative values with terrorism.

Donald Trump is talking about the failed leadership of the Obama Administration.

Even CEOs police their own bureaucracy. Trump is not that. He does have more in common with these guys than most elected officials would have, particularly in the Obama administration. Obama didn't have anybody that'd ever worked in the private sector. All they had is a bunch of theoreticians who thought they were smarter than everybody that runs businesses in the private sector. And who knows what kind of pressure was brought to bear. Remember, Obama's agenda was one that was to be governed against the will of the people.

Yes, Barack Obama had his clashes with the press. I witnessed those first-hand covering the second term of his administration. But we did not have Barack Obama on almost a weekly basis referring to the press as the enemy of the people and accusing reporters of treason and calling legitimate stories fake news.

The Obama administration sought to appease the Iranians at any and all cost.

There clearly was an Obama administration no-holds-barred attempt to clear the path to the presidency for Hillary Clinton.

The Obama administration has consistently refused to recognize Jerusalem as Israeli territory, let alone as the capital of Israel.

We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.

The Obama administration seems to have lost the will to win. The terrorists have not.

I must say I'm surprised by how skeptical of the [Barack] Obama administration The Nation has been.

We cannot afford four more years of this misguided socialist policies from President Obama and his administration.

Unfortunately, the Obama administration is more interested in furthering its political agenda than in following the law.

I have my disagreements with President Obama, but President Obama has run an amazingly scandal-free administration, not only he himself, but the people around him. He's chosen people who have been pretty scandal-free.

The examples of the Obama Administration 'stimulating' jobs everywhere on the planet except here in America are endless.

In 2007 and 2008, it was impossible to get American and British policy makers, or Pakistani politicians, to acknowledge that the Taliban leadership was in Pakistan. This is the great virtue of the early statements of the Obama administration, when Obama himself, Richard Holbrooke and others, said that the threat to both countries comes principally from western Pakistan, in Balujistan and Waziristan. So there has been some progress, but probably the hardest part is yet to come.

The Obama administration and its allies, such as the Sierra Club, tried to kill coal because of their obsession with global warming.

The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.

Obama administration didn't have one person who had ever worked in business. Not one Obama cabinet member had ever seriously had a job, run a company, met a payroll in the American economy. And, as such, no way of understanding how business is done, from negotiations to any other aspect of it. In fact, people in Obama's cabinet were arrogant and condescending and looking down on those people as a bunch of shysters and a bunch of cheats and people that kill their customers and they're destroying the planet.

Few issues better illustrate the limits of the Obama administration's 'reset' with Russia than the crisis in Syria.

Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go... Rush Limbaugh told his multi-millions of listeners that Obama only did that to gain favour with black people in America. This is the kind of idiocy that I have to deal with in my country.

Over the last eight years, the Obama-Clinton administration has undermined our space program tremendously. That will change. So many good things come out of it, including great jobs. And it will change very quickly under a Trump administration and it will change before it is too late.

I think the Obama administration, whether it's in his first term or second term, is totally committed to the search for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and we greatly appreciate the president's effort, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the first administration, now Secretary of State John Kerry.

The Obama administration is dedicated to increasing terrorism. In fact, he is doing it all over the world. Obama is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history. The drone assassination campaigns - which are just part of the special forces operations and so on - all of these operations are terror operations.

When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%. You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true.

The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.

With its record spending and deficits, the Obama administration has shown little interest in taking fiscal responsibility. That is a mistake.

The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail. The administration's central activity - the political allocation of wealth and opportunity - is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.

If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?

As far as the Ukraine is concerned, it's a mess. And that's under the Obama's administration, with his strong ties to NATO.

Despite the fact that he has run the most incompetent administration in history, President Obama remains a solid bet for re-election in 2012. Obama's frontrunner status springs from two crucial facts: first, by overexposing himself in the public eye, he has made himself larger than life; second, the Republican field is pathetically weak.

The Obama administration has been weak and inconsistent in enforcing immigration laws.

Holding Congressional hearings is the purview of the majority, and during the first years of the Obama administration, Democrats could not be bothered.

We are talking about institutionalizing a program on solar development that will outlast the Obama administration.

Gov. Romney's policies would be a clear departure from the dubious tactics of the Obama administration.

What I do know, as a former federal prosecutor, is, it does appear that there were crimes committed during the Obama administration.

The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.

The American people deserve to know exactly which laws the Obama Administration is refusing to enforce and why.

The America that has flourished for more than two centuries is being quietly but steadily dismantled by the Obama administration.

I think Mrs. Clinton has a lot of weaknesses because she was the architect of the Obama administration's foreign policy.

One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier marriage. We hear that all the time; there have been billions of dollars now, between the Bush administration and the Obama administration, which has continued the marriage education program, on trying to get more people to get married.

Let's go back to the beginning of the Obama administration, when Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama led NATO in toppling the government in Libya. They did it because they wanted to promote democracy. A number of Republicans supported them. Well, the result is, Libya is now a terrorist war zone run by jihadists.

I think, all in all, the Obama administration and what President Obama has focused on has lived up to our need to protect American interests, to live our values and assert our values, and to stand up for future generations.

All the issues that have come up under the Obama administration would be continued under Hillary Clinton.

Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.

Obama spent the first two years of his administration practicing political unilateral disarmament.

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery’s version of the Barack Obama “Hope” poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama’s Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists’ Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.

Yes, the Obama administration has and will continue to use Hollywood and the entertainment industry to push its agenda.

Embarrassingly for Obama, it appeared that his administration had jumped the gun on banning the bullets.

The Obama administration is on notice - they will not be allowed to regulate what they have been unable to legislate.

Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

The Obama administration has an undeniable pattern of using regulatory overreach and intimidation to further its political aims.

Energy is under siege by the Obama administration.

The number of jobs created under President Barack Obama's stimulus turned out to be fewer than the number we would have had if the government had done nothing - according to the Obama administration's own analysis. So we got $9 trillion of debt with almost nothing to pay for it.

The administration [of Barack Obama] is going to have to figure out, you know, a tough response on the basis of this [Russian] hacking.

My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience.

It's so sad to see how few people in the Obama administration have any private sector experience.