Quotes About Obama

The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.

I am prepared to admit that when it comes to dealing with the House and Senate leaders, Obama is terrible. But he's great with the public. Which hates the House and Senate as much as he does.

Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

The Left is deeply invested in Obama's presidency; they believe he's too important, symbolically, to fail.

Those close to Mr. Obama say he grows irritated at being misunderstood - not just by opponents who insinuate that he caters to African-Americans, but also by black lawmakers and intellectuals who fault him for not making his presidency an all-out assault on racial disparity.

Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices.

Beyond diversity, the story of Obama's influence on the courts is more complex. Indeed, it could serve as a metaphor for his Presidency: symbolically rich but substantively hazy. Obama took office after years of intense conservative focus on the courts.

People who are desperate for Barack Obama to win the presidency are capable of practically anything.

Obama must scrutinize and disassemble the post-Sept. 11 imperial presidency, even if he reduces his own power in the process.

One of the best moments of the Obama presidency was the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

There clearly was an Obama administration no-holds-barred attempt to clear the path to the presidency for Hillary Clinton.

I'm a kid from Chicago. I know what it was like to see Obama become president. We felt the tectonic plates of the world shift.

I love that President and Mrs. Obama are embracing the arts. I am so delighted.

I believe together, with the OAS, everybody condemned the coup d'etat, and everybody is demanding that President Zelaya should go back to the presidency, and they should call for general elections and realize an election. That's what we want. And I believe that President Obama made the right decisions condemning the coup d'etat.

President Obama, under your leadership, we do need guns to keep us safe.

President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.

I think President Obama is clearly, you know, a Republican. I know, because in the 1990s I was a Republican, and he's way to the right of me, and I've hardly changed any positions.

During his brilliant campaign, President Obama wove a powerful narrative about the American we all hope for. And that hope was grounded in a very powerful reality: President Obama's own inspiring life story.

President Obama has adopted a practice of picking and choosing which laws he wants to enforce. In most cases, his laws of choice conveniently coincide with his administration's political agenda.

I'm done with President Obama, and frankly, so are my law enforcement friends.

President Obama deserves our unalloyed praise for hastening Osama bin Laden's demise.

Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.

President Obama came into office in '08 with the belief that - and the public's belief in him - that he was moderate, that he wasn't a big spender.