Quotes About Obama

I was going to start off tonight with an Obama joke but I don't want to get audited by the IRS.

Regis Philbin's back in primetime, hosting 11 new episodes of 'Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.' But because of Obama's tax plan, it's been re-titled 'Who Wants To Win Just Under $250,000.'

The more Americans find out about President Barack Obama's health care law, the less they like it. A majority of Americans want out.

Why, listening to Obama talk about his economic triumphs over the last three years might make you want to move to the country he was describing. Too bad that country exists primarily in his own head.

I think soon after I became director of the CIA - President Obama pulled me into the Oval Office and said: 'Look, I just want you to know that your top priority is to go after Osama bin Laden.'

Obama wants to ruin America. Hillary [Clinton]too.

After eight years of Obama one thing is clear: Conservatives want a fighter.

If the thumbnail version of the Iraq war was that Bush lied about WMD, the thumbnail version of Obama's war in Afghanistan is that the generals pushed him into a war he didn't want to fight.

President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial.

Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You're thinking of Jesus.

Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?

Obama, of course, is an outstanding orator—but even outstanding orators (unlike nineteenth-century presidents) feel obliged to dumb their words down a bit for the American public. President Donald Trump, however, is proud of his limited tweetish vocabulary. "I know words," he declared at a campaign appearance in Hilton Head, South Carolina. "I have the best words. But there is no better word than stupid. Right?

The rise of the Tea Party following Obama's first election was the first hint of backlash revealing the extent of white supremacy. Its roots in America's psyche are too deep to be pulled up by the victory of one extraordinary black man. Those who hailed that victory as the dawn of a post-racial era were those who'd never fully faced American darkness.

If Obama was the American dream—"Nowhere else on earth would my story be possible"—Trump is the American nightmare.

rise of the Tea Party following Obama's first election was the first hint of backlash revealing the extent of white supremacy. Its roots in America's psyche are too deep to be pulled up by the victory of one extraordinary black man. Those who hailed that victory as the dawn of a post-racial era were those who'd never fully faced American darkness.

No white person I met in the South would say their distaste for Obama was a function of racism. I don't agree with his liberal policies, they'd tell me. But disagreement is not hatred, and a growing body of literature argues that racism was the deciding factor in the 2016 election.

The achievements of Obama's presidency, especially impressive in the face of massive opposition to every move he made, undermined the last rationalizations for white supremacy—which is just what provoked the massive backlash that led to the election of the least qualified man ever to approach the White House.

It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.

Given the pervasive secrecy of the Bush-Cheney administration, and the sorry consequences of that disposition, President Barack Obama's early emphasis on openness in government seems almost inevitable.

Trump may not like the fact that 20-plus anonymous sources provided the 'Times' with an unflattering portrait of his campaign, but that doesn't make it 'false.' Of course, Trump had no problem with news outlets running with his made-up claim in 2011 that President Obama 'doesn't have a birth certificate.'

Washington les hizo caso. En abril de 2012 el presidente Obama incluyó la financiación colectiva en la Ley Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS). Dicha ley facilita a las empresas pequeñas

I think that seeing as much support as somebody like Obama as a black candidate running for president in a country that historically has had issues with the African-American people, and them having issues vice-versa, is a miraculous thing.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.