Top 1200 Obama Administration Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

We're obviously in speculation territory here, because we don't know what the Trump administration is going to do.

Unfortunately, the state of national security under the Trump administration is far from strong.

The Russian cloud over the Trump administration never seems to disappear.

My dad was one who - he was nonpartisan, first of all. He learned to work with whatever administration was in office.

I cannot think of a president or administration that has taken seriously the 100 days.

Obama wouldn't have been voted president if he weren't black. Somebody asked me over the weekend why does somebody earn a lot of money have a lot of money, because she's black. It was Oprah. No, it can't be. Yes, it is. There's a lot of guilt out there, show we're not racists, we'll make this person wealthy and big and famous and so forth.... If Obama weren't black he'd be a tour guide in Honolulu or he'd be teaching Saul Alinsky constitutional law or lecturing on it in Chicago.

An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.

I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills.

Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.

I think Michelle Obama ought to wear her hair exactly the way she wants to wear her hair. I am not looking for Michelle Obama to cut her hair off like I have mine, very short. I'm not looking for her to do twists. I'm looking for her to wear what's comfortable for her.

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

My administration is committed to ensuring Granite Staters have access to clean water.

In America, we had a totally divided country for eight years and long before that. In all fairness to President Obama, long before President Obama we have had a very divided - I didn't come along and divide this country. This country was seriously divided before I got here.

[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.

Our stability is but balance, and conduct lies In masterful administration of the unforseen.

President Obama is coming under criticism now for not meeting with his jobs council. He hasn't met with his jobs council in over six months. You know the reason Obama hasn't met with his job council in six months? They're all out looking for jobs.

Obama recently warned some college graduates against being all worried about government tyranny, and Obama has good reason to warn you against that because worrying about government tyranny is the exact sort of thing that will get you audited. Or, when Obamacare is in full force, it will be the attitude that gets you denied life saving health care. So have faith in government. Or it will get you.

In many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided.

I don't want a job in the administration; I think I'm more effective carping from the sidelines.

I wanted to have something to fall back on. I got my degree in business administration.

I'm a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I'm invited to all the inaugural balls.

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction.

Streamlining New Hampshire's regulatory framework is a key priority of my administration.

I know both Secretary [Hillary] Clinton and President [Barack] Obama were very gracious and I respect that a lot in the way they handled it the day after, two days after. But I wish they would says something about it too. Because after all, these are supporters of President Obama and Hillary Clinton and maybe they could say something about this. Really not the right thing in the democracy.

The Bush administration will go down in history as the Torture Team.

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

My administration will put new American metal into the spine of this nation.

The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.

I share the administration's goals in dealing with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction.

My administration has a job to do and we're going to do it. We will rid the world of the evil-doers.

With someone like Barack Obama, I think the whole America, the whole world will coalesce. Every election is about change, and change takes a long time because there are big issues that can't be changed overnight. But the one thing that will change dramatically is how we're viewed around the world. Once Obama is in there, the world will view Americans in an entirely different light. And that, to me, is a good thing.

I have directed all of my cabinet to work to prepare a transition plan for the incoming administration.

We need an attorney general for the people, not a presidential protector and puppet of the administration.

It was my long-held belief that police brutality would increase under the Trump administration.

Every administration suffers its share of 'what the president meant to say' moments.

My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.

As president, improving cyber security will be an immediate and top priority for my administration.

Obama found a lot of people that think just like he does, and he put them in the intelligence community. Can you imagine? When you think of the intelligence community, don't you think of super patriots, don't you think of people out there even risking their lives to defend and protect the Constitution and the people of this country and this country itself as founded? No. That's not the kind of people Obama put at the CIA.

Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.

My administration is going to enforce all trade violations against any country that cheats.

I think that you will see some significant changes in the [Donald] Trump administration.

And the voters, many of them, feel that the economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff. You are going to see a tremendous Hispanic vote for President Obama. Overwhelming black vote for President Obama. And women will probably break President Obamas way. People feel that they are entitled to things and which candidate, between the two, is going to give them things?

Barack Obama understands what Ronald Reagan learned, which is that people vote not on the basis of issues and policy details, but on the basis of something deeper, namely, what are your values? Are you authentic? Do you say what you believe? Do you communicate with us? And do we identify with you? You don't know what particular issues are going to come up in the future, so you have to depend on someone's values, and whether they are telling you the truth, and whether you can trust them in office. Obama's been running a campaign on that basis.

Talk to the assistant press secretary, the deputy to key administration officials.

The White House that I worked in, that Trump administration, was - it was troubling. And it was very difficult.

I spent a lot of 2012 going around the country saying that President Obama was the most liberal and most incompetent president in my lifetime ever since Jimmy Carter. Now having witnessed the events abroad these last several days, to President Carter, I want to issue a sincere apology. It is no longer fair to say he was the worst president of this great country in my lifetime, President Obama has proven me wrong.

Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.

I don't want to work for the government, the president's administration, the State Duma, or the Federation Council.

President Obama has moved millions of people out. Nobody knows about it, nobody talks about it. But under Obama, millions of people have been moved out of America. They've been deported. Hillary Clinton doesn't want to say that, but that's what's happened, and that's what happened big league.

I have changed the style of functioning of the government and administration and managed to change the perception.

After college I worked as an appointee in the Clinton administration from 1992 to 1998.

It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.

I think people will lie to pollsters. I think the truth of Obama and what people think of Obama is when you ask people about his agenda and then nobody likes anything. They don't like Obamacare. They don't like the Iran policy. They don't like taxes. They don't like anything he's done. But you put him in the question and people get scared to say anything negative because of the racial component.

Under a Trump administration, Florida and America will lead the way into the stars.

Since 1998, the Administration has begun to upgrade counterintelligence and security at U.S. weapons labs.

I was in the trade field as White House fellow in the first Bush administration.

The Trump administration gives me so many more opportunities to be verbal and vocal.