Top 1200 Obama Campaign Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

We are seeing Republicans uniting behind this [presidential] campaign [2016].

Remember we had two Democratic houses of Congress along with the [Barack] Obama administration that laid out those policies before they lost Congress because people were very disappointed in what the Obama administration did - bailing out Wall Street instead of bailing out Main Street. So as someone who follows the climate very closely, there's no question that "all of the above" has been an absolute disaster.

You can use the [Barack] Obama administration as a recent example. For seven years they've been unopposed. The Republican Party's not trying to stop 'em on a single thing. Much of Obama's agenda has been a success. He has been able to attack various traditions, institutions, and taken over the health care system in this country. They've taken over the student loan, they've taken over the education system, and everybody in it is miserable and unhappy.

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.

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.

One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.

Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.

I'm very disappointed with the McCain campaign. In my opinion, it was inept.

Let's be completely honest: the Trump campaign's social media was a joke.

If there's not a message that people care about, they're not going to work on the campaign.

Jayasudha and I have acted in several films and it is my duty to campaign for her.

I don't care if you've just won an Oscar, you still have to campaign for parts.

Rare is the election campaign that truly hinges on a single issue.

Race has been a big issue in this [presidency] campaign [2016].

I was indeed very critical of Mr. Trump during his campaign.

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 am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.

Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.

There can be an energy in a populist campaign that isn't always in the best interest of the party.

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.

Part of a campaign reporter's job is allowing yourself to be used.

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.

No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

The simplest answer is the truth: I am a campaign professional.

Rafa is the toughest opponent to start a campaign against.

I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.

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.

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?

I think it's clearly the result of something that looks like a campaign.

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.

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.

I call Steve Bannon the general of our campaign. It's true.

I think social issues are always part of a presidential campaign.

If we run the campaign that we plan on running, we think we're going to win.

I'm a marketeer, and I thought the message discipline in the Leave campaign was extraordinary.

I'm not connected to the Trump campaign in any way, shape, or form.

It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.

Public financing would fix campaign donor problems.

The United Nations is proud to have the Adopt-A-Minefield Campaign as a partner.

How can you work with someone if you went into their state to campaign against them?

You cannot duck the difficult issues in the middle of an election campaign.

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror

When I do an editorial or when I do a campaign, I bring that lens to every space.

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

We can't allow domestic violence to become a campaign issue.

I don't think that any campaign is ennobled by people trading insults.

Karen Handel has run a 100 percent negative campaign.

We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.

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.

During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.

Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.

In a short campaign there's no way any of us can meet all the voters.

I was similar to Trump well before I joined his campaign.

I keep my campaign promises, but I never promised to wear stockings.

It's a mandate for you to do in office what you said you would do on the campaign trail.

Am I disappointed in Barack Obama? Yes, I'm very disappointed in Barack Obama and I'm disappointed in the Democratic administration and in the two Democratic houses of Congress for two years that bailed out Wall Street when they should have bailed out Main Street.

Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

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.

Public campaign financing isn't perfect and can doubtlessly be improved upon as we go.