Barack Quotes - Page 18

• I don't have the stressful job. Barack Obama does.

  Michelle Obama

  Jobs, Doe, Stressful

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• Like, for example, way back then,[George W.] Bush could have passed immigration reform, just like [Barack] Obama could have when he first came in. And both of them passed on it, so now they leave it for now.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Immigration, Example, Reform

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• That was an exception within the [Barack] Obama administration's economic policy, a crisis that he inherited from the previous administration, and felt it was essential to carry through on.

  Judy Woodruff

  Essentials, Administration, Economic

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the rest of the country should be paying less, the 95 percent that [Barack] Obama talks about or maybe even a little higher than that.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Thinking, Littles

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• It doesn't matter to me where Barack Obama goes. If he wants to go to Hawaii because it's his home state, fine! Hunky-dory. Plastic banana, good-time rock 'n' roller dittos.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Home, Rocks, Hawaii

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him.

  Julianne Malveaux

  People, African American, Adore

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Young African - millennials really love Barack Obama.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Millennials, Young

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• We live in a bubble of progression, and over the last eight years [of Barack Obama], we've been a country of progression.

  Ansel Elgort

  Country, Eight, Years

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• People will be talking about the [Barack] Obama legacy for decades, and I wanted to include my voice in the analysis of this presidency.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Talking, Voice, People

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• This is a column collection, or as one colleague called it, "history in real time," recounting my perspective on the highs and lows of this presidency from an African-American perspective. More than simply a column collection, the book has a substantial introduction that frames the [Barack] Obama presidency, explores the way Obama was treated by the political establishment and also how this first black president treated "his" people. In the epilogue, I use numbers to tell the story of African-American gains and losses during this presidency.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Real, Book, Loss

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• It was quite a process to narrow more than 400 columns down to 80. I write weekly, though, and I don't always write about President [Barack] Obama, so that was the easy elimination.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Writing, President, Easy

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Sometimes, I repeat myself, and that was a second elimination [of Barack Obama]. I worked with a team, including a great editor who, as the project came together, suggested other additions and eliminations. It was a process.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Team, Editors, Together

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• The economy is better than the one President [Barack] Obama inherited, and unemployment is lower, but the unemployment rate gap remains large.

  Julianne Malveaux

  President, Unemployment, Gaps

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."

  Julianne Malveaux

  Children, Moving, Writing

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• President [Barack] Obama's pick of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education was abysmal.

  Julianne Malveaux

  President, Duncan, Secretary

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Cutting HBCUs was unconscionable. Implementing new regulations on Parent Plus loans, which cost HBCUs 28,000 students, was hostile. At the same time, it is important to note that, except for his first two years, which were a missed opportunity, President [Barack] Obama faced rabid opposition from the Republicans.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Cutting, Opportunity, Two

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Indeed, as soon as he took office, Senator Mitch McConnell announced that his top priority was to deny President [Barack] Obama a second term.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Office, Priorities, President

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• The president [Barack Obama] did introduce a jobs bill that could not clear Congress. The Republicans simply would not work with him.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Jobs, President, Bills

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• President [Barack] Obama's choice of Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff was questionable, and perhaps coverups around the police violence against black people in Chicago is reflective of Mr. Emmanuel's values.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Police Violence, People, Choices

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Did Rahm Emmanuel serve President Barack] Obama or did he serve himself as he prepared to run for Mayor of Chicago? I don't use the term black-on-black violence, since I've never heard the term white-on-white violence.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Running, White, Black

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons in cities, as opposed to more community policing, is not the solution.

  Julianne Malveaux

  War, Cities, Community

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• President [Barack] Obama did put together a task force on 21st Century Policing, led by Philadelphia police chief Charles Ramsey, to look at some of these issues after Ferguson.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Philadelphia, Issues, Police

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Trayvon Martin could have been any of our sons, so I was not especially moved by that remark of President [Barack] Obama's.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Son, President, Trayvon Martin

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• [Barack Obama] intended, I think, to say that he took Trayvon's [ Martin] death somewhat personally.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Thinking, Trayvon

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• [Barack Obama] might say more about these rogue cops and their license to kill.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Might, Rogues, Cop

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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