Barack Quotes - Page 31

• When I said clean, I meant he [Barack Obama] was bright. Like when [Donald] Trump said about Carly [Fiorina], "face" he meant "persona."

  Joe Biden

  Faces, Clean, Trump

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• The point being we used to have a system that wasn't as rigged in how the tax structure functioned. The president [Barack Obama] and I have been trying to get rid of some of these loopholes for some time. Look, we have to change the corporate culture.

  Joe Biden

  Trying, President, Culture

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Should we have border security there? Yes. But the idea of the United States erecting a wall for the world to see makes a lie of everything we say about ourselves. It's a little bit like why the President [Barack Obama] and I feel so strongly about closing Guantanamo. It is inconsistent with who we are.

  Joe Biden

  Wall, Lying, Ideas

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• [Hillary Clinton] has talked about not being a natural campaigner. And she has this big shadow because her husband, the former president [Bill Clinton], and President [Barack] Obama both are natural campaigners. And so this is a challenge for her.

  Tamara Keith

  Husband, Challenges, President

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The gag rule must be eliminated, and it's just the gag rule, we're not talking now even about funding abortion. We're talking about, you know, counseling and speaking, so that's one. That can be reversed by an executive order. [George W.]Bush put it in the first day he got in office. We hope that [Barack] Obama takes it out. He had cut off funding for the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, even though Congress had appropriated. It is injured women who are the poorest of the poor.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Cutting, Order, Talking

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

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• We want this - and I - we hope that right when they come back, that the Congress passes the Lilly Ledbetter Act which would correct the Supreme Court decision that was just recent that essentially guts wage discrimination law. It's been in place for years. It was gutted by this Roberts Court. We want it to be reversed by legislation. We hope that Congress passes it and that is on the desk for [Barack] Obama to sign as one of his first acts once he's sworn in. So it - I could go on, we have quite a well-developed list.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Years, Law, Decision

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

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• I think what President [Barack] Obama has done is to chart a steady course. When I was there, the first four years we had a lot of cleanup to do. We inherited a lot of bad feelings from the [George W.] Bush administration, and much of what I spent my time doing was traveling around the world reassuring friends and allies.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Years, Feelings

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I think people need to remember what the situation was when President [Barack] Obama came into office.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, People, Office

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• What [Barack Obama] and I did was to say clearly what we're doing, all the bluster, all of the sanctions, that are just imposed by the American government haven't had much impact.Let's see if we can put together an international coalition to really cripple Iran, and then maybe we can begin a negotiation, and that's what I did. It was difficult. We had to get China and Russia on board, and not just get them on board by signing a piece of paper.

  Hillary Clinton

  Iran, Impact, Russia

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• When people say, well, they disapprove, I'd like to know what the specifics are, because sometimes - and the president [Barack Obama] has admitted this - they may not feel like he's really explaining and understanding the emotion behind some of these fears [about Iran]. And that's a perfectly legitimate question for people to ask. But if you look at the results of where we are, I think there are some things I agree with and some things I don't agree with, and I think that's absolutely fair game.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Games, Iran

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I'm going to keep talking about what I would do as president, the experience that I bring, the temperament and judgment that led President [Barack] Obama to ask me to be secretary of state after we ran a really hard primary against each other. It's funny to me, because when I have a position, whether it's first lady, or senator, or secretary of state, and I'm doing the work, I'm really quite popular.

  Hillary Clinton

  Talking, President, Firsts

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• How do we create jobs for so many Americans who are feeling pushed out, not just left out, pushed out of the modern economy. Obviously it's skills and education. But it's also jobs. So if I could do anything it would be to take this moment in time that we've got when, yes, our recovery is better, we've had steadier growth, I don't think President [Barack] Obama frankly gets the credit he deserves for the kind of steady hand that he and his advisers apply to moving through that really dangerous period.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Moving, Recovery

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• So she [Hillary Clinton] wouldn't intentionally put the nation at risk. She wouldn't intentionally traffic in top secret stuff. And besides, not all this stuff we deal with is that classified anyway. So here's the president [Barack Obama], very powerful, intimidating guy, [James] Comey works for him, the president's been out there saying he didn't think Hillary did anything wrong.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Powerful, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I felt that it was deeply moving and profound, and of course everybody was like, "Oh, the president [Barack Obama] can sing!" Maybe a little off key! I actually think that the sermon reinforced the very nature of the grace that the victims' families had shown to the world.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Moving, Thinking, Keys

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• The pattern of American presidential elections is that the more optimistic candidate, whether it's John Kennedy and let's get America moving again, Ronald Reagan, it's morning in America, or Barack Obama, yes, we can, always wins, or nearly always wins.

  Mark Shields

  Morning, Moving, Optimistic

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Whole part of the world is a mess under [Barack] Obama, with all the strength that you're talking about and all of the power of NATO.

  Donald Trump

  Talking, World, Mess

  Source: www.npr.org

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• And Hillary's [Clinton] not a change person. She's gonna be a person to keep it just the way it is. It's gonna be four more years of [Barack] Obama.

  Donald Trump

  Years, Four, Way

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Republicans also have to start to look at talent recruitment. Eight years ago Barack Obama was a no-name state senator. So I think we need to look outside the Beltway and start to look at a younger, more diverse pool of people and tap them to run for office instead of continuously tapping the same type of self-funder individual that Republicans seem to go after every time.

  Andrea Tantaros

  Running, Thinking, Eight

  "What Republicans Must Do: Interview with Andrea Tantaros (Guest Interview)". Interview with Bill Steigerwald, themoderatevoice.com. January 24, 2009.

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• I think what Donald Trump is reflecting is - and I know the media always discounts this because you don't like to get criticized. But you don't treat us the same way that you treat Democrats. Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama , they get the benefit of the doubt.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Thinking, Media, Doubt

  "'This Week' Transcript: Rudy Giuliani and Michael Morell". abcnews.go.com. AugUST 7, 2016.

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• We chose to frame "March" around the inauguration of Barack Obama because it was such an important moment in the story of the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the fulfillment of Dr. [Martin Luther] King's dream, but it was a major down payment.

  Andrew Aydin

  Dream, Kings, Rights

  Source: www.salon.com

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• He was making a very serious point. Donald Trump has a way of talking to get people's attention, and it's drawn attention to a very important issue.There was a time when a Democrat president knew where the buck stopped in the White House. And the responsibility for the failed policies in the Middle East that created the environment where ISIS developed belongs to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the American people know that.

  Mike Pence

  Responsibility, Talking, White

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I said [ Barack Obama], the founder of ISIS. Obviously, I'm being sarcastic.But not that sarcastic, to be honest with you.

  Donald Trump

  Sarcastic, Isis, Honest

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I see some parallels [with Barack Obama] but I don't see the leadership that this guy [John F.Kennedy] had of other men and women. It's more than being the smartest guy in room.

  Chris Matthews

  Men, Guy, Rooms

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• I don't sense an [Barack] Obama party. I think politics is transactional for him.

  Chris Matthews

  Party, Thinking

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• The real difference between relationship politics and transactional politics is loyalty. [Barack] Obama doesn't seem to expect it.

  Chris Matthews

  Loyalty, Real, Differences

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