Obama Quotes - page 31

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)
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. View quote
Rob Portman
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. View quote
Rob Portman
I think President Obama has done more than he is given credit for. View quote
Robert Caro
Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure. View quote
Robert Dallek
I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats. View quote
Rafael Cruz
President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom. View quote
Ralph Hall
Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected. View quote
Ron Fournier
The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics. View quote
Ron Fournier
Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job. View quote
Ron Fournier
If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia. (Ron Fournier)
Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process, not a speech. View quote
Ron Fournier
For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda. View quote
Ron Fournier
President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps? Or are we a nation of community, all connected and counting on one another? View quote
Ron Fournier
At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community. View quote
Ron Fournier
Most Tea Party activists consider Obama a big-spending liberal. Some even question his eligibility to be president. View quote
Ron Fournier
Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009. View quote
Ron Fournier
Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America. View quote
Ron Fournier
Since declaring that she would not serve in a second Obama administration, Clinton has dismissed suggestions that she will run in 2016. View quote
Ron Fournier
Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem certain to guarantee an angry electorate four more years of gridlock. View quote
Ron Fournier
Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices. (Ron Fournier)
Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told 'National Journal' that the country's economic woes are deep and endemic. View quote
Ron Fournier
It's a bit unfair to accuse Obama of dividing the nation when the facts show that it already is. View quote
Ron Fournier
I feel like I am campaigning door to door. You just can't step out of a band like Brooks & Dunn and assume that it is just going to be business as usual. You have to work it. It does feel like a campaign where you would have Obama, Romney, or Newt beating the bushes right now. That's what I'm having to do. View quote
Ronnie Dunn
Usually, you get to interview that one girl who plays the sister on some Disney show - you interview that girl a lot - but sometimes, every once in a while, you get to interview a legend. I have interviewed some amazingly iconic people, including Michelle Obama, Oprah, Sidney Poitier and Judy Dench. These people are legit icons. View quote
Ross Mathews