Barack Quotes - Page 27

• Fate handed Barack Obama the best of all political gifts - a dyspeptic, surly, spiteful opposition on the one hand and very unpopular financiers on the other - and he wouldn't come out punching, name names, or go for the jugular. It was as if while getting mugged by guys with brass knuckles, he turned the other cheek. He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women's rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.

  Bill Moyers

  Writing, Fate, Doors

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• Now Barack Obama, who campaigned for transparency, is the President defending secret negotiations on new trade agreements that are largely being written by corporate lawyers and lobbyists. He would give corporations the key to the treasury while he gets the authority to fast track another hammering of working people and the environment. Yet the only people who get a real tongue-lashing from this President's White House are progressives around town who dare to call him on the carpet for abandoning his promises.

  Bill Moyers

  Real, Agreement, White

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• I spent more time talking with this president [Donald Trump] in the last few days, I think, than I probably talked with this last president [Barack Obama] in the last six months. So this is something that he is working very closely hand in glove with congress.

  Paul Ryan

  Thinking, Hands, Talking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• What [President Donald Trump] is doing is taking away the executive overreach that President [Barack] Obama did which we thought exceeded his powers.

  Paul Ryan

  President, Trump, Executives

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We see President [Donald] Trump actually reclaiming the proper role of the executive, and undoing a lot of damage that was done to the economy through excessive executive action by President [Barack] Obama.

  Paul Ryan

  President, Damage, Roles

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• I favored the idea of Trans-Pacific Partnership, but I did not support the administration - the [Barack] Obama administration TPP. There are three or four things they did in that, that I though were terrible agreements that were not worth supporting.

  Paul Ryan

  Agreement, Ideas, Support

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think the Mexican government is going to be forced to at least be more aware of what goes on in the [Donald] Trump administration than they were in the [Barack] Obama administration.

  Mark Halperin

  Thinking, Government, Mexican

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I thought for a while, Barack Obama, although he wanted comprehensive reform had less a good chance of getting it than Donald Trump because of the Nixon goes to China factor here, where Trump can secure the border and get people on board, I think he could see comprehensive reform. Not this year, but maybe next year.

  Mark Halperin

  Thinking, Years, People

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• I've heard the term ["silent majority"], but for the last 20 years I really haven't heard the term. But I went to a rally in Alabama, and there were 31,000 people there, you've seen it, you've read about it. And I looked and I said, this is the silent majority. Though they weren't silent, because they want to see proper change, not [Barack] Obama change.

  Donald Trump

  Years, People, Majority

  Source: www.economist.com

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• After eight years of [Barack Obama], look what happened in this election. Did the country flip again? No. I maintain it didn't flip in 2008-2009, and we were not a 60% radical leftist population like they tried to portray it as.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Eight, Years

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• If during the eight years of [Barack] Obama they won and they had converted this country into this radical, leftist, extremist culture and country, and if that was the trend, and if that's what Obama's elections meant, then how is it that the Democrat Party, which is the home of all of that, has lost 1,200 seats since Obama's second year in office?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Party, Home

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• Everyone who knew [Barack] Obama from being in Hyde Park knew he was the smartest guy in any room he walked into; a decent, compassionate, lovely person; pragmatic, middle-of-the-road and ambitious.

  Bill Ayers

  Guy, Lovely, Ambitious

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, "You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor of Chicago." That was the limit of my imagination.

  Bill Ayers

  Thinking, Imagination, Guy

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• [Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.

  Bill Ayers

  Campaigns, Compromise, Politician

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• The Right said, [Barack Obama] is lying, he's a socialist who pals around with terrorists, he's a secret Muslim and blah blah blah. That was their line. The liberals all said, He's winking at me, I can feel him winking in my direction. He wasn't winking. He said exactly who he was and he's lived that out perfectly.

  Bill Ayers

  Lying, Secret, Pals

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• You can be disappointed but only if you thought [Barack Obama] was something that he said he wasn't!

  Bill Ayers

  Said, Disappointed, Ifs

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• Every politician - FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama - they're all conservative by nature. They are part of the big thing and they're moving in a very constrained world.

  Bill Ayers

  Moving, World, Conservative

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• We're actually saying, here's a principle that I'd like to arc toward. That's a very different role in life. I didn't expect [Barack] Obama to go to the root of things. I didn't expect him to have a principled position on anything. I mean, just pay some moderate attention to the guy.

  Bill Ayers

  Mean, Roots, Guy

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• [Barack Obama] was running for Senate and he's saying, I'm not for gay marriage because I'm a Christian. Jump off a bridge! I mean what the hell are you talking about? You know, I mean, what's he doing now? He's evolving. Evolving? Well, evolve for Christ's sake! And this is a guy - the whole gay community, and the whole environmental community and all these other people said, he's our guy.

  Bill Ayers

  Christian, Running, Mean

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• If you listen to the debate, [Barack Obama] and [John] McCain said the same thing about gay rights.

  Bill Ayers

  Gay, Rights, Debate

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• [John] McCain seemed to be winking to the Right, and [Barack] Obama seemed to be winking to the Left. Neither one of them - if McCain had been elected we'd still be where we are on gay rights.

  Bill Ayers

  Gay, Rights, Winking

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• Even there, [Barack] Obama's generals, his Pentagon, they're telling him what to do. And the force for gay rights is inevitable. And you can say Obama will help us, and maybe he will, but only if we have something on the ground that will make him help us. Frankly, the gay movement on the ground has been one of the great propulsive things that has made politicians do what they do.

  Bill Ayers

  Gay, Rights, Movement

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• I'm not disappointed in [Barack] Obama. He said who he is; he's doing what he said he would do.

  Bill Ayers

  Said, Disappointed

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• I do think [Barack Obama's] strategy for re-election is so misguided. He's counting on the Republicans to self-destruct, and they might, you know, but they might not. So he might be a one-term president.

  Bill Ayers

  Thinking, Self, President

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being wheeled by her son waving a big American flag, and then seeing a guy with his baby in his arms saying, "I didn't want her to miss tonight! I wanted to be able to tell her!" And to see all these people, a Hispanic cop dancing with an old white woman, wow! I mean, that's the world I want to live in, and because it's the world I want to live in, I had a hard time leaving.

  Bill Ayers

  Baby, Mean, Son

  Source: thepointmag.com

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