Barack Quotes - Page 26

• I have to say, early on, to be fair, in the [Barack] Obama administration, the Obama White House said that Fox News was not a true news organization.

  Donald Trump

  Organization, White, House

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think it's worrisome that Barack Obama actually contributed to the bifurcation of our society. I don't think that he made nearly enough effort to be a uniter. And there's, I think, been a backlash against him, and some of that has been reflected in Trump's success. And I think it's really sad, and that's part of Obama's legacy.

  Mona Charen

  Thinking, Effort, Legacy

  "Barbershop: Trump's Tweets, Press Conference And Obama's Farewell". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 14, 2017.

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• In many people's many people's minds this is the sole reason Barack Obama was elected. He was elected to fix race relations.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Race, People, Mind

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In terms of talking about what our politics has become, it now seems as if Barack Obama is starting to stand outside of it a little bit and critique what our politics has become. And I think he sees himself as a useful critic that way saying that it's not only become dishonest, he said, but now we have a selective sorting of the facts and our politics has become self-defeating.

  Gloria Borger

  Thinking, Self, Talking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Foreign Policy, Policy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Barack Obama's been president for about eight hours; President Obama was here for eight years. So if you want to talk about numbers that matter, it's quantifying all the losses - the women who were slid into poverty, those who can't find meaningful work, and their children who deserve a better life.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Meaningful, Children, Loss

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Barack Obama is president of a superpower and I'm a citizen of a small state.

  Vaclav Havel

  President, Citizens, States

  Source: www.rferl.org

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

  Randy Newman

  Liars, People, Wonder

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• 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

  Country, Years, People

  Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

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

  Kevin Drum

  Real, Growth, Term

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• 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

  Lying, Thug, Media

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• In any case, open-seat presidential elections like 2008 just are different in character from incumbent reelects, and I think that's the most important thing about this election - is that once there's an incumbent running for reelection, most of the debate is about, "Has he [Barack Obama] done a good job?" Most of the judgment is, "Do you want to keep him or do you want to replace him?" Now, the opponent has to also be acceptable and has to make his own case.

  William Kristol

  Running, Jobs, Character

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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

  William Kristol

  Winning, Thinking, People

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• I think the whole dynamic is different. Whereas in [Barack] Obama's case, even though there was no incumbent, he was able to run against eight years of Bush-Cheney and a Republican Congress, and everyone was tired of everything. He was able to benefit from that.

  William Kristol

  Running, Tired, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• If you look at the polls - the conservatives are fine.I think there will be a fair amount of enthusiasm, or at least motivation. They very much want to remove President [Barack] Obama.

  William Kristol

  Motivation, Thinking, President

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• The classic example I've used - I'm sure you've heard me say it before - was Mark Begich in Alaska who was here for a full six years and never had a roll call vote on an amendment on the floor of the Senate, which Dan Sullivan tells me he used on virtually a daily basis. So the notion that protecting all of your members from votes is a good idea politically, I think, has been pretty much disproved by the recent [Barack Obama] election.

  Mitch McConnell

  Thinking, Alaska, Years

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• I think there were two messages in last year's election. One is pretty obvious. People were mad as hell at the president [Barack Obama] - and wanted to send a message. We all got that. Our new members were also hearing, and I was hearing as well, that people didn't like the fact that the Congress was dysfunctional. Now they may have been confused about where the dysfunctionality was cause the president kept pointing to the House. Factually, that's not accurate. The dysfunction was in the Senate.

  Mitch McConnell

  Confused, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• We didn't make much progress on the country's agenda. And in my view it's because the Senate basically hadn't done much of anything, with a couple of exceptions, for the last four years [of Barack Obama's presidency]. And that's going to change.

  Mitch McConnell

  Country, Couple, Views

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• It is a statement to the obvious, however, that [Barack] Obama - of Obamacare - is the President of the United States, so I don't want people to have [unrealistic] expectations about what may actually become law with Obama - of Obamacare - in the White House. But we intend to keep our commitment to the American people.

  Mitch McConnell

  Commitment, Law, Obamacare

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• Wages never seem to go up. The whole economy feels stuck, and millions of Americans, millions of Americans, middle-class security is now just a memory. Progressives like to talk like Barack Obama likes to talk forever about poverty in America. And if a talk did any good, we'd have overcome those deep problems long ago. This explains why under the most liberal president we have had so far, poverty in America is worse, especially for our fellow citizens who were promised better and who need it most.

  Paul Ryan

  Memories, Long Ago, Class

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You listen to all the [Barack] Obama intelligence officials all saying ISIS will infiltrate that [immigrants] population. We have so many majority-Muslim countries that are not impacted, but the media insists on calling this a Muslim ban.

  Sean Hannity

  Country, Media, Isis

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Barack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions - the kind of guy who would rather teach constitutional law than practice it, or who'd rather watch the match alone on TV than arm-wrestle his opponents.

  Bill Moyers

  Strong, Men, Law

  Source: progressive.org

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• When we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack Obama was going to break their hearts. They didn't want to hear that, and they refused to believe it. Eighteen months later they started dropping by one by one to say, sadly: "He broke our hearts." A couple of them even wept.

  Bill Moyers

  Couple, Believe, Heart

  Source: progressive.org

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• Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn't even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.

  Bill Moyers

  People, Faces, Determined

  Source: progressive.org

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• Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing's for sure - he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.

  Bill Moyers

  Believe, Winning, Thinking

  Source: progressive.org

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