President Barack Obama Quotes:

[Michael Flynn] has called President [Barack] Obama a liar.

- John Heilemann

topic: Liars, President, President Barack Obama

If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hard-line, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the world but not with Republicans? Maybe he's not the problem.

- Jon Stewart

topic: President, World, Lines, Hardness, President Barack Obama

The president [Barack Obama] did introduce a jobs bill that could not clear Congress. The Republicans simply would not work with him.

- Julianne Malveaux

source: Source: www.theskanner.com

topic: Jobs, President, Bills, President Barack Obama

Indeed, as soon as he took office, Senator Mitch McConnell announced that his top priority was to deny President [Barack] Obama a second term.

- Julianne Malveaux

topic: Office, Priorities, President, President Barack Obama

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.

- Jimmy Carter

source: "Carter Cites 'Racism Inclination' in Animosity Toward Obama". Interview with Brian Williams, voices.washingtonpost.com. September 16, 2009.

topic: Men, Thinking, African American, President Barack Obama, Animosity

President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.

- Danny Glover

source: Source: progressive.org

topic: Men, Rights, President, President Barack Obama

[I]t's an honor to be a food stamp president. Food stamps feed the hungry. Food stamps save the children. Food stamps help the farmer. Food stamps help the truck driver. Food stamps help the warehouse. Food stamps help the store. Food stamps hire people and feed people. Food stamps save people from starvation and malnutrition. ... Give President Barack Obama a big hand. Show your love. Show your appreciation.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Appreciation, Children, Hands, Malnutrition, Warehouse

We can support President Barack Obama, because he supports us. We can support Barack Obama, because he shares our values and our vision.

- Richard Trumka

topic: Support, Vision, President, President Barack Obama

President Barack Obama Invokes Iraq War Authorization in Syria

- Bobby Schilling

topic: War, Iraq, President, President Barack Obama

[Hillary Clinton] has talked about not being a natural campaigner. And she has this big shadow because her husband, the former president [Bill Clinton], and President [Barack] Obama both are natural campaigners. And so this is a challenge for her.

- Tamara Keith

topic: Husband, Challenges, President, President Barack Obama, President Bill Clinton

I think what President [Barack] Obama has done is to chart a steady course. When I was there, the first four years we had a lot of cleanup to do. We inherited a lot of bad feelings from the [George W.] Bush administration, and much of what I spent my time doing was traveling around the world reassuring friends and allies.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Thinking, Years, Feelings, President Barack Obama

Ninety-plus percent of police/community relations is simply wonderful - where people obey the law, don't resist arrest, don't attack cops and don't threaten lives, everyone gets along just fine. When the president [Barack Obama] constantly sides with the worst thugs out there and with the Black Lives Matter terrorists, and the media lies constantly, we the people better get to the truth ASAP.

- Ted Nugent

source: Source: www.chicagotribune.com

topic: Lying, Thug, Media, President Barack Obama, Black Lives

I don't think [Mitt] Romney can sit there and wait to win because perhaps people are disappointed with President [Barack] Obama.

- William Kristol

source: Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

topic: Winning, Thinking, People, President Barack Obama

The country didn't get that way in a week; we've had years and years of getting behind in our economy. So President [Barack] Obama stepped into a hellhole and people wanted him to change it as soon as he came in. But he's got his adversaries to deal with in the House and Senate, so it's not easy.

- Maya Angelou

source: Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

topic: Country, Years, People, President Barack Obama

He was making a very serious point. Donald Trump has a way of talking to get people's attention, and it's drawn attention to a very important issue.There was a time when a Democrat president knew where the buck stopped in the White House. And the responsibility for the failed policies in the Middle East that created the environment where ISIS developed belongs to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the American people know that.

- Mike Pence

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Responsibility, Talking, White, Way Of Talking, President Barack Obama

I felt that it was deeply moving and profound, and of course everybody was like, "Oh, the president [Barack Obama] can sing!" Maybe a little off key! I actually think that the sermon reinforced the very nature of the grace that the victims' families had shown to the world.

- Oprah Winfrey

source: Source: www.aarp.org

topic: Moving, Thinking, Keys, President Barack Obama

So she [Hillary Clinton] wouldn't intentionally put the nation at risk. She wouldn't intentionally traffic in top secret stuff. And besides, not all this stuff we deal with is that classified anyway. So here's the president [Barack Obama], very powerful, intimidating guy, [James] Comey works for him, the president's been out there saying he didn't think Hillary did anything wrong.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Powerful, Thinking, Guy, Top Secret, President Barack Obama

I'm here tonight, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an optimistic American who understands that we must come together behind the one man who can lead the way forward in these challenging times: my president, our president, Barack Obama!

- Charlie Crist

source: Charlie Crist, Ellis Henican (2014). “The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat”, p.8, Penguin

topic: Optimistic, Men, Challenges, President Barack Obama, Challenging Times

President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

- Peter Fenn

source: "The tyranny of the minority" by Peter Fenn, www.politico.com. March 19, 2009.

topic: Usa, President, Problem, President Barack Obama, Filibuster

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.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Party, Broken, Being Ignored, President Barack Obama

Because of all our presidents, Barack Obama is the one most likely to be descended from a slave trader, since Kenya had a major slave-trading port, and the Muslims were heavily involved in the slave trade.

- Ann Coulter

source: Source: aalbc.com

topic: President, Slave, Trade, President Barack Obama

This is classic Donald Trump. This is the movement, not the party. He has been agitating against the leadership, the Washington establishment, the status quo, people who have held power, people that didn`t take on President Barack Obama to the extent he wanted to or the base wants to.

- Bob Ehrlich

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Party, People, President, President Barack Obama

Well, we're just a couple of weeks from new President Barack Obama being sworn in. And he's been very busy naming a lot of cabinet positions. And today he announced that he wants the surgeon general to be TV Dr. Sanjay Gupta. That was the kid on 'American Idol,' wasn't it?

- David Letterman

topic: Couple, Kids, Idols, President Barack Obama, American Idol

This is a president [Barack Obama] who came into office in 2008 with a big majority in the House and with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Because of his policies and his conduct in office, seven years later, we have our largest majority in the House since 1928, and we have a majority in the Senate and we have 31 of the 60 governorships.

- Chris Christie

source: "Christie explains changed stance on gun laws; Trump Jr. talks father's candidacy; Fiorina scolds Clinton". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 6, 2016.

topic: Years, Office, House, President Barack Obama, Filibuster

The politics, policies, the President [Barack Obama] and the American people are all pointing in the right direction to fix our immigration system and pass legislation this year.

- Luis Gutierrez

topic: Years, People, President, President Barack Obama

We're [President Barack Obama and I] clear on the fact that we have to stay humble and prayerful. We have to dig down deep to our roots. When things come together, we know some of it is Barack, some of it is us-but a lot of it has nothing to do with either of us.

- Michelle Obama

topic: Humble, Roots, Luck, President Barack Obama, Stay Humble

Closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a promise President [Barack] Obama made it but has yet to fulfill.

- Audie Cornish

topic: Promise, President, Cuba, President Barack Obama, Guantanamo

The Republican candidates clashed on terrorism, immigration and foreign policy in their fifth debate.They all said President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton have not kept America safe.

- Renee Montagne

topic: America, President, Immigration, President Barack Obama

I used to think most Democrats in Congress who voted for [ObamaCare] really believed they were doing something good for the poor and the middle class. Now I wonder. It's crystal clear that just about everything President Barack Obama promised about his health plan was false, his deception deliberate. If Democrats really cared for the people harmed by the law, you'd think they'd admit their mistake, try to fix it. They haven't.

- Jack Kelly

topic: Mistake, Thinking, Law, President Barack Obama, Health Plan

On Russia, I can only repeat what the president [Barack Obama] said. This is all about respecting certain principles, and I'm saying this from a European vantage point, from a European, from a German vantage point, sorry, the fact that for over 70 years we have been able to enjoy peace.

- Angela Merkel

source: Source: time.com

topic: Sorry, Russia, Years, Vantage Point, President Barack Obama

I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.

- Ta-Nehisi Coates

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Thinking, White, President, President Barack Obama, White Supremacy

There are also fundamental issues related to what the current leader, President [Barack] Obama, said. I am referring to his idea about American exceptionalism. I am skeptical about this idea.

- Vladimir Putin

source: Source: www.rt.com

topic: Issues, Ideas, Leader, President Barack Obama, American Exceptionalism

The president [Barack Obama] is not willing to send in apaches and spotters if the Iraqis say they don't want them and if it means that these Shia mobilization forces are going to be going after and trying to kill Americans.

- Adam Schiff

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Mean, President, Trying, Mobilization, President Barack Obama

It will be an unusual dynamic [in Congress]. It won't be like the rallying behind President [Barack] Obama in 2009 or behind President [George W.] Bush, even at the beginning of his presidency, or even [Bill] Clinton in '93, when he got his budget through on a partisan vote.

- William Kristol

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: President, Bills, Vote, President Barack Obama, President George W Bush

The president [Barack Obama] decided to leave more troops than he had originally planned in Afghanistan. We have a very cooperative government there, with Ashraf Ghani and his top - his top partner, Abdullah. And they are doing their very best. And the Afghan army is actually fighting. The Afghan army is taking heavy losses defending Afghan territory.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Loss, Army, Fighting, President Barack Obama, Afghan

When I saw the president [Barack Obama], I was a little disappointed that, you know, we were under constant attack. We never felt comfortable.

- Donna Brazile

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: President, Littles, Saws, President Barack Obama

I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House. And I think, like, there's a crucial difference between being, you know, Joe Schmo in the neighborhood and being the head, you know, of the government that, you know, in many ways is largely responsible for those conditions in the first place.

- Ta-Nehisi Coates

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Thinking, Government, White, President Barack Obama

I think President [Barack] Obama is exactly right, we need to combat [gun shoots] because this really can become the new normal, but that`s really what`s been happening.

- Jonathan Michel Metzl

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Gun, Thinking, New Normal, President Barack Obama

This president [Barack Obama] is someone who has done more to protect and keep together families with DACA and then with DAPA.

- Julian Castro

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: President, Together, Done, President Barack Obama

The President [Barack Obama] had suggested that I not watch the news during the confirmation process. I assiduously followed his advice.

- Sonia Sotomayor

source: Source: eldiariony.com

topic: Advice, President, Watches, President Barack Obama

If I listen to a campaign promises, I would expect that on the first day [Donald Trump] would cancel all of the DACA documents out there that President [Barack] Obama unconstitutionally issued.

- Steve King

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Promise, President, Firsts, President Barack Obama

As the refugee crisis unfolds across Europe, another is looming in our backyard. The number of children crossing the southwest border unaccompanied has quietly surged more than a year after President [Barack] Obama referred to the problem as a quote "urgent humanitarian situation."

- Joy-Ann Reid

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Children, Years, Europe, President Barack Obama, Refugee Crisis

Maybe this Democratic president[Barack Obama] did and can get comprehensive health care reform passed, but notice, Medicaid is not expanded in any of these dark red states. The Republican Party may not be able to repeal Obamacare, but it certainly, through its state legislatures and governorships, has managed to halt Obamacare`s full impact.

- Melissa Harris-Perry

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Party, Dark, Obamacare, State Legislatures, Notice Me

As president, I will ensure that the United States is the global energy powerhouse of the 21st century.That means reinstating the Keystone XL Pipeline that President[Barack] Obama rejected. It also means rolling back the regulations from this administration that limit our ability to find resources by imposing regulations on hydraulic fracturing and our ability to be energy independent by regulating drilling on federal lands. As president, I will make America an energy leader through technology and innovation.

- Carly Fiorina

source: "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

topic: Mean, Independent, Technology, Hydraulic Fracturing, President Barack Obama

Even before President [Barack] Obama announced actions aimed at tightening controls on gun purchases, sales were up, partly in reaction to terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino. Gun dealers say the president's initiatives have spurred sales. At the same time, polling shows more than two thirds of Americans support the president's proposals, including a majority of gun owners.

- Rachel Martin

source: Source: www.wbur.org

topic: Gun, Two, Paris, Polling, President Barack Obama

Then President [Barack] Obama went on to argue that a citizen`s Second Amendment rights can be restricted without being infringed, just like any other rights. There are limits on your free speech and on your right to privacy. But he also made another nuanced Constitutional argument, that the rights enshrined in the Second Amendment must be balanced alongside the others rights guaranteed by the Constitution.

- Melissa Harris-Perry

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Rights, Second Amendment, President, President Barack Obama, Right To Privacy

The death panel issue arose with Tom Daschle, who was originally going to be the Health Czar. Daschle became enamored with the British system and wrote a book about health care, which influenced President [Barack] Obama.

- Nat Hentoff

source: Source: annaz.blogspot.com

topic: Book, Issues, President, President Barack Obama, Enamored

We have the world's best military, even though he (President Barack Obama) has done everything he can to diminish it.

- Benjamin Carson

source: Transcript: Sixth Republican top-tier debate 2016, www.cbsnews.com. January 15, 2016.

topic: Military, President, Done, President Barack Obama, Best Military

Around the world, America's influence has declined while this president [Barack Obama] has destroyed our military, our allies no longer trust us, and our adversaries no longer respect us.

- Marco Rubio

source: Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

topic: Military, America, President, President Barack Obama, Planned Parenthood

The issue of guns, as president [Barack] Obama mentioned, which is particularly assailant in Colorado, a very complicated gun story, and I think a political climate that urges people to take issues into their own hands.

- Jonathan Michel Metzl

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Gun, Thinking, Hands, President Barack Obama