Top 1200 President Barack Obama Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I often criticized what President Bush did, but President Obama is Bush's spending on steroids.

I know generals who disagree with [Barack] Obama, but I don't think these people are idiots or been reduced to rubble.

I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.

He [Barack Obama] is been boffo at fundraising - 220 fundraisers, and he raised something approaching $1 billion.

[Barack Obama] intended, I think, to say that he took Trayvon's [ Martin] death somewhat personally.

At the same time, you had Barack Obama as a president. You had Hillary Clinton on track, all the Democrats looking good. And, you know, Donald Trump was just an entertaining buffoon to watch. And, over time, you came to realize that Donald Trump was appealing to a lot of people with his populist message. And, slowly, I think, even as a show, we started shifting in tone as the election started shifting.

I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success.

American Journalism is dead… They have behaved like hockey goalies in front of Barack Obama’s net.

President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president's vision and courage.

Barack Obama's class has always been an illusion clouded in faculty lounge, lizard lounge talk, and Michelle Obama's class has actually been told us by the media that it exists, but there isn't any. There isn't anything that's real. Everything on the left is a fraud. Everything on the left is a lie.

I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.

I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama.

I suspect unconscious bias has been far more of a factor for President Obama than overt racism and will also be a challenge for Hillary Rodham Clinton if she runs for president again.

Barack Obama has injected fresh momentum into efforts - stalled for a decade - to bring about nuclear disarmament.

I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in the U.S. - as it was very difficult to elect a woman president in Brazil.

Barack Obama went high, despite Donald Trump's best efforts to bring him down.

President Obama was not friendly to the press, but the press was very friendly to President Obama.

The White House announced that President Obama will attend a summit in Kenya this July. When asked if he's ever been to Kenya, Obama said, 'Of course. I was born - no, bored - over there. There's nothing to do in Kenya.'

In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.

By 2016, the people who had looked to [Barack] Obama for change were looking somewhere else.

Be there because Barack Obama and Joe Biden will deliver America the change we so desperately need.

During the [Barack] Obama presidency, the Dow doubled in real terms. What's more, its growth has been remarkably steady.

America under Barack Obama has become a defensive, reactive and weaker country both at home and abroad.

Barack Obama's failed us. But look, it's understandable. A lot of people fail at their first job.

America cannot take another four years of Barack Obama, and that's what you're getting with Hillary Clinton.

President Obama says he will not support a healthcare plan where the government gets to decide whether to, quote, 'pull the plug on Grandma.' Apparently, Obama's plan calls for the much quicker pillow option.

Mitt Romney saying that Barack Obama gets an F is one of the most ridiculous things that he has said in this race.

Barack Obama's campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming.

Whole part of the world is a mess under [Barack] Obama, with all the strength that you're talking about and all of the power of NATO.

Part of the challenge of the Barack Obama campaign was to try to neutralize that white backlash, and of course, he was masterful in doing that.

It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.

Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.

Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is not an authoritarian form of government. This is a constitutional republic, and the president doesn't allow or disallow. The president can't buy or purchase.

America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.

If Barack Obama cannot appreciate that our troops are winning in Iraq, he should not be their Commander in Chief.

The white right is trying to set Barack up to be assassinated... There are Christians praying for God to kill Obama.

I am proud to live in a country with an African-American president. But President Obama cannot be proud of the fact that the prevalence of black poverty has actually increased under his leadership. The specific policies advanced by the president and his allies on the left amount to little more than throwing money at the problem and walking away.

And again, President Obama's health care plan really is another drag on the economy. Until we get Washington out of the way, this president's recovery is going to continue to rank dead last.

I never thought we'd ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job He just has been unable to get what he needs to be moved at the level it should be moved.

Despite a campaign that was based on a very powerful promise of transparency, President Obama, and again in my view quite correctly, has used the state secrets argument in a variety of courts, as much as President Bush.

All you have to do is see the way ISIS was created in the vacuum left by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama out of Iraq.

Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I’ll predict that right now.

The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'

President Obama met with leaders of the American Indian tribes and they honored the president by giving him his own Indian name: Running Deficits.

Of course, our immigration system isn't broken. The enforcement of our immigration system is broken. The president Barack Obama, the Democrat Party, and several in the Republican Party are trying to break the immigration system. The system itself is not broken; it's just fine. It's just being ignored.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

He [Barack Obama] just seemed very firm about the change, and that's, like, his motto.

It's disappointing that President Obama - who ran for office in 2008 saying he was going to be a fiscally responsible president - has caused the largest deficits and the largest debt in American history.

I never thought we'd ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job... He just has been unable to get what he needs to be moved at the level it should be moved.

Among those people not graduating, there might be a Steve Jobs or Barack Obama. We'll never know.

I did vote to defund the Obama program that defers deporting the so-called DREAMers, because that was the president's decision, and the president shouldn't unilaterally get to decide what laws to enforce or not enforce.

When I was in the Senate, I had eight great years working with the community on major issues, trying to deal with problems that people brought to my attention. That's certainly what I intend to do as president. I think that is what President Obama has done.

Barack Obama is a street corner community organizer who is using the office of the presidency here to virtually undermine it.

If Barack Obama weren't a U.S. citizen, I'm sure Bill and Hillary Clinton would have figured that out by now.

When people say, well, they disapprove, I'd like to know what the specifics are, because sometimes - and the president [Barack Obama] has admitted this - they may not feel like he's really explaining and understanding the emotion behind some of these fears [about Iran]. And that's a perfectly legitimate question for people to ask. But if you look at the results of where we are, I think there are some things I agree with and some things I don't agree with, and I think that's absolutely fair game.

Yesterday President Obama traveled to Jamaica, where he will meet with students and Caribbean leaders. Jamaica's such a beautiful place, Obama says he can't wait to just take it all in, hold it for several seconds, and then exhale.

Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior.

George W. Bush made the agreement about when American troops would leave Iraq, not Barack Obama.

I was the one that got him [Barack Obama] to produce the birth certificate. And I think I did a good job.

President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.