President Obama Quotes - Page 21

• Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.

  Fred Upton

  Law, President, Different

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• An imposing wall prominently divides the visions of President Obama and congressional Republicans when it comes to economic growth and creating jobs. Solyndra is on one side and the Keystone pipeline is on the other.

  Fred Upton

  Jobs, Wall, Creating

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• Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.

  Fred Upton

  Obamacare, Giving, President

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• Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.

  Mitt Romney

  Taken, Government, Gdp

  "The Sean Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 2, 2011.

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• President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial.

  Mitt Romney

  President, Trials, Want

  Mitt Romney's primary speech in New Hampshire, www.washingtonpost.com. January 10, 2012.

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• We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.

  Martin O'Malley

  Jobs, Moving, Long

  Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 27, 2012.

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• I was recently appointed by President Obama to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. I am so excited that the President trusts me to advise him on things that are important to people with disabilities!

  Lauren Potter

  People, Intellectual, Important

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• Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.

  Reince Priebus

  Practice, Champion, Enemy

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• Because of President Obama's failed record on nearly every issue from the economy to the deficit to Medicare, the Obama campaign has become increasingly dirty, despicable, and desperate.

  Reince Priebus

  Dirty, Issues, President

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• And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.

  Mitt Romney

  Class, America, Honor

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• The last four years under President Obama have been trying and troubling for this entire country. The tired big government policies of the past have failed us. We can't afford more disappointments. We need a new direction. We need a new president.

  Reince Priebus

  Country, Disappointment, Tired

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• There has never been a campaign where there hasn't been sniping from the outside and second-guessing. I hear the same sometimes from the Democratic side in terms of President Obama's campaign, so that's to be expected.

  Rob Portman

  President, Campaigns, Sniping

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• President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do.

  Rob Portman

  Ideas, Trying, President

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• Instead of focusing on growing jobs and reigniting our economy, President Obama focused on growing government and tried to remake the United States into the image of the debt-laden countries of Europe. His approach has been more spending, more regulation, and higher taxes.

  Rob Portman

  Country, Jobs, Government

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• President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's.

  Rob Portman

  Mom, Support, President

  "Portman Gives GOP Weekly Address: "We're Going Broke" Under Obama". www.realclearpolitics.com. July 14, 2012.

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• I think what people are looking for right now is not the kind of pizzazz and pop that perhaps we thought we got in 2008. Certainly, President Obama offered that. What they want now is someone who can work closely with Congress and get things done.

  Rob Portman

  Thinking, People, President

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• President Obama has decided to have the United Nations review the law of Arizona. You have got to be kidding! We're now going to have countries like Cuba, Libya and Uganda sitting in judgment on Arizona's laws? Enough is enough!

  Russell Pearce

  Country, Uganda, Law

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• And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.

  Cecile Richards

  President, Cabinets, Court

  "Cecile Richards DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  Stupid, President, Republican

  "David Axelrod and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa defend President Obama's economic record". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 02, 2012.

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• Look, I don't think President Obama would have bowed to the ruler of Saudi Arabia if he didn't have oil to the degree that the Saudis do. I think they and other producing states, almost all of whom, except Norway and Canada, are dictatorships or autocratic systems, have thrown their weight around because of oil.

  R. James Woolsey, Jr.

  Thinking, Oil, President

  "Gary Hart, James Woolsey: Oil Tied to Security". Interview with Daniel Stone, www.newsweek.com. August 05, 2010.

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• Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.

  Mitt Romney

  Years, People, President

  “CNN Newsroom”, www.cnn.com. February 1, 2012.

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• The Bush administration, they had two blue ribbon commissions about infrastructure finance that recommended a lot more money, and additionally the gas tax being increased. We couldn't get them to accept being able to move forward. Since President Obama's been in office, there has been, to be charitable, a lack of enthusiasm for raising the gas tax.

  Ray LaHood

  Moving, Blue, Two

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• In the eyes of the Iranians, they don't respect or fear Barack Obama. He drew a line against Assad when he used chemical weapons and did nothing about it. And our friends, the Arabs and the Israelis, don't trust President Obama.

  Lindsey Graham

  Eye, President, Lines

  "What's at stake for US as Saudi-led airstrikes pound Yemen?". "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo, www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2015.

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• President Obama says he wants to put an end to the policy, 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' Yeah, in the military. This is not to be confused with George Bush's policy, 'Don't Know, Don't Care.' That's a whole different deal.

  David Letterman

  Confused, Military, President

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• President Obama is going to take two weeks to unwind, as opposed to President Bush, who never wound.

  David Letterman

  Two, President, Week

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