President Obama Quotes

• The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.

  Mitch McConnell

  Important, President, Politics

  Mitch McConnell (2016). “The Long Game: A Memoir”, p.202, Penguin

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• President Obama can find time to meet with a YouTube personality who eats cereal out of a bathtub, but not the prime minister of our ally Israel?

  Greta Van Susteren

  Israel, Cereal, Personality

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• President Obama instituted the most anti-growth, anti-investment, anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious, I call it reckless.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Usa, Growth

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• On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.

  Mitt Romney

  Government, Decision, President

  "Mitt Romney's Florida Victory Speech". www.realclearpolitics.com. January 31, 2012.

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• President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.

  Mitt Romney

  Religious, Order, Organization

  "Mitt Romney Wins the Florida Primary: Live Thread" by David Weigel, www.slate.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.

  Marco Rubio

  Hurt, Government, Obamacare

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• Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt 'unpatriotic' - serious talk from what looked to be a serious reformer. Yet by his own decisions, President Obama has added more debt than any other president before him, and more than all the troubled governments of Europe combined. One president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt.

  Paul Ryan

  Government, Europe, Decision

  Paul Ryan's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.npr.org. August 29, 2012.

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• While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that.

  Paul Ryan

  Responsibility, Math, Challenges

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• Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.

  Paul Ryan

  Obamacare, Grandparent, President

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.

  Paul Ryan

  Running, Anger, Frustration

  "Exclusive: GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan on 'Hannity'". Interview with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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• President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate us, and when we get down to only half, let's have a ball. I'll blow up the balloons myself.

  Paula Poundstone

  Country, Hate, Blow

  "Celebrate Bad Times, Come On!" by Paula Poundstone, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 7, 2009.

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• Frankly that's what makes such a big difference between President Obama on one hand and Mitt Romney on the other. Gov. Romney has not walked in those shoes of the ordinary Americans and frankly I don't think he has the capacity to quite understand the struggle that the 98 percent of Americans go through every single day.

  Ken Salazar

  Struggle, Thinking, Differences

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• As a former member of President Obama's economic team, I have a soft spot for the fiscal stimulus legislation he signed just a month after his inauguration.

  Christina Romer

  Team, President, Months

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• Thanks to President Obama, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition!

  Cecile Richards

  President, Thanks, Being A Woman

  "Cecile Richards DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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• President Obama understands women. He trusts women. And on every issue that matters to us, he stands with women.

  Cecile Richards

  Issues, President, Matter

  "Video, funding controversies put spotlight on Planned Parenthood boss". www.foxnews.com. October 01, 2015.

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• The Democrats' agenda isn't working for women. Their vision has produced big government and limited opportunity. Our vision is for limited government and opportunity for all. Women deserve better than what President Obama has delivered.

  Reince Priebus

  Opportunity, Government, Vision

  "Will Obama Apologize to Women for His Failures?" by Reince Priebus, townhall.com. April 27, 2012.

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• Governor Pence said, inarguably, Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President Obama.

  Tim Kaine

  Leader, President

  "Kaine, Pence Clash in V.P. Debate; Pence Repeatedly Denies Trump's Past Statements; Hurricane Matthew Bearing Down on East Coast". "New Day", www.cnn.com. October 5, 2016.

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• The country's in significant danger, and I think we need people who are thoughtful. We're gonna have sharp differences, but we need to debate those in a way that's constructive and civil. I think President Obama is governing as a movement liberal. I don't think that rises to the level of being a socialist.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Thoughtful, Thinking, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Apology, America

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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

  Nancy Pelosi

  Dream, Jobs, President

  The House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.

  Bev Perdue

  Country, Fighting, Equal Pay

  "Gov. Bev Perdue DNC 2012 speech". www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• If we want to get rid of Obamacare, we're going to have to replace President Obama.

  Mitt Romney

  President

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• We cannot afford four more years of this misguided socialist policies from President Obama and his administration.

  Rick Perry

  Years, President, Four

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• President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.

  Rick Perry

  Government, America, President

  "Don’t call it a stimulus" by Aaron Blake and Chris Cillizza, www.washingtonpost.com. September 09, 2011.

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• President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Order, People

  "Putin warns West on Syria". www.politico.com. September 4, 2013.

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