President Obama Quotes - Page 15

• Once you're president, you can't go anywhere without causing trouble. President Obama shows up in China, he's chewing gum, they go crazy. A big stink because the president's chewing gum. And you think, the Chinese are so easygoing about human rights. What's the problem?

  David Letterman

  Crazy, Thinking, Rights

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• President Obama has repeatedly urged Congress to let the Bush tax cuts expire for those earning more than $250,000 a year. Increasing rates on top earners is an obvious way to raise revenue from those who can afford it most.

  Christina Romer

  Cutting, Years, President

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• Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

  Christina Romer

  President, Minimum Wage, Unions

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• Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.

  Steven Rattner

  Successful, America, Long

  "More Chips For Tax Reform". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. November 24, 2012.

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• I came to this country when I was twelve years old because my parents wanted to give me new opportunities to succeed. President Obama wants everyone to have the chances I had.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Country, Opportunity, Years

  "'Hispanic Oprah' Endorses President Obama" by Amy Bingham, abcnews.go.com. June 18, 2012.

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• President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Dream, Believe, Hard Work

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• President Obama is in China. Also in China is evil Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. They're both in China at the same time. It's like running into your ex-girlfriend on vacation.

  David Letterman

  Running, Girlfriend, Vacation

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• In my time in the U.S. Senate, I tried to craft an energy policy... I will be part of President Obama's efforts to achieve energy independence and enhance the landscape. I am also part of his reform agenda.

  Ken Salazar

  Effort, Independence, President

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• Our country has suffered from an on-again, off-again energy policy that has failed to get us to energy independence. As President Obama has said, we need a comprehensive energy plan for the country that includes conventional resources like oil and gas, but that also takes advantage of wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and other renewable resources.

  Ken Salazar

  Country, Wind, Oil

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• President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president's vision and courage.

  Ken Salazar

  Real, Oil, Vision

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• Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.

  Fred Upton

  Law, President, Different

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• An imposing wall prominently divides the visions of President Obama and congressional Republicans when it comes to economic growth and creating jobs. Solyndra is on one side and the Keystone pipeline is on the other.

  Fred Upton

  Jobs, Wall, Creating

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• Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.

  Fred Upton

  Obamacare, Giving, President

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• Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  Stupid, President, Republican

  "David Axelrod and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa defend President Obama's economic record". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 02, 2012.

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• Look, I don't think President Obama would have bowed to the ruler of Saudi Arabia if he didn't have oil to the degree that the Saudis do. I think they and other producing states, almost all of whom, except Norway and Canada, are dictatorships or autocratic systems, have thrown their weight around because of oil.

  R. James Woolsey, Jr.

  Thinking, Oil, President

  "Gary Hart, James Woolsey: Oil Tied to Security". Interview with Daniel Stone, www.newsweek.com. August 05, 2010.

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• You gotta love Rick Perry's swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, doing his best to instantly cast himself as the big dog in the Republican pack.

  Jeff Goodell

  Dog, Iowa, Texas

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• While I'm on foreign soil, I - I just don't feel that I should be speaking about differences with regards to myself and President Obama on foreign policy, either foreign policy of the past, or for foreign policy prescriptions.

  Mitt Romney

  Past, Differences, President

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• Bottom line is President Obama has said that it is a top priority of the United States of America to ensure that Iran never achieves a nuclear.

  Mitt Romney

  America, Iran, Priorities

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• We have made progress from where we were when President Obama took office, when the economy - our economy had just contracted almost by nine percent.

  Mitt Romney

  Office, Progress, President

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• The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.

  Mara Liasson

  Approval Rating, Giving, President

  "Jobs Back At Political Forefront". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with David Greene, www.npr.org. July 8, 2012.

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• With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President
  Obama ... is stepping once again - and with understandably great reluctance - into the chaos
  of an entire civilization that has broken down. Arab civilization, such as we knew it, is all but
  gone. The Arab world today is more violent, unstable, fragmented and driven by extremism -
  the extremism of the rulers and those in opposition-than at any time since the collapse of the
  Ottoman Empire a century ago.

  Hisham Melhem

  Islamic, Civilization, Broken

  "The Barbarians Within Our Gates" by Hisham Melhem, www.politico.com. September 18, 2014.

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• I could never wrap my head around why the world and the President that Republicans describe bears so little resemblance to the world and the President that I experience. And now I know why. There is a President Obama that only Republicans can see.

  Jon Stewart

  President, World, Littles

  "Late-night talk shows can't get enough of mocking Clint Eastwood's empty chair" by Craig Berman, www.today.com. September 2, 2012.

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• President Obama has appointed a new head of the Secret Service. The new Secret Service director was so excited that he jumped over the White House fence for joy.

  Conan O'Brien

  White, House, Joy

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• I never thought we'd ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job He just has been unable to get what he needs to be moved at the level it should be moved.

  Hank Aaron

  Jobs, Black, President

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• If 'extreme' means that I am unwilling to go to Washington, D.C., and do what President Obama tells me, then so be it. But I am certainly not going to Washington, D.C. to represent the interests of D.C. I'm going there to represent Colorado values.

  Ken Buck

  Mean, President, Colorado

  "Interview with Colorado Senate Candidate Ken Buck". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 11, 2010.

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