President Obama Quotes - Page 27

• The government is promoting bad behavior... do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages... This is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage? President Obama are you listening? How about we all stop paying our mortgage! It's a moral hazard

  Rick Santelli

  Government, America, People

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• I think soon after I became director of the CIA - President Obama pulled me into the Oval Office and said: 'Look, I just want you to know that your top priority is to go after Osama bin Laden.'

  Leon Panetta

  Thinking, Office, Priorities

  "Transcript of interview with CIA director Panetta". Interview with Brian Williams, www.nbcnews.com. May 3, 2011.

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• President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

  Bob Dole

  Wish, President, Needs

  "Bob Dole: Great American" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, www.gq.com. June 25, 2012.

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• President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science and in the future, so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big, and the kid after that, and the kid after that. That's what president Obama believes.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Country, Believe, Kids

  "Bill Clinton Captivates Delegates, Nominates Obama". "Morning Edition" with Mara Liasson, www.npr.org. September 6, 2012.

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• President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Inspirational, Country, Art

  "Put a Face on It" by Anna Deavere Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2013.

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• President Obama understands that, as a nation founded by those who fled religious persecution, freedom of religion is central to who we are as Americans. Our rights are not given to us by government, they are endowed by our Creator.

  Denis McDonough

  Religious, Rights, Government

  Denis McDonough's Speech on International Religious Freedom, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 12, 2012.

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• When I look at President Obama, I see a leader with a cool head, a caring heart and an open mind, a president who has demonstrated through his demeanor and through his deeds that he is uniquely qualified to heal our divisions, rebuild our nation and lead us to a brighter future together.

  Charlie Crist

  Heart, Caring, Leader

  Charlie Crist, Ellis Henican (2014). “The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat”, p.7, Penguin

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• I'll be honest with you, I don't agree with President Obama about everything. But I've gotten to know him, I've worked with him, and the choice is crystal clear.

  Charlie Crist

  Choices, President, Crystals

  Charlie Crist, Ellis Henican (2014). “The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat”, p.7, Penguin

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• When I was a Republican governor, he was obviously a Democratic president, but on issue after issue after issue, President Obama was very helpful to us in education, in the environment, with the handling of the BP oil spill.

  Charlie Crist

  Oil, Issues, President

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• President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.

  Eric Alterman

  President, Today, Taxes

  "Think Again: Conservatives Prefer Reagan Fantasies to Reality (And So Did Reagan)" by Eric Alterman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• President Obama, through health care reform, strengthened Medicare. How did he do that? Well, he found savings by cutting subsidies to insurance companies, ensuring we were rooting out waste and fraud, and he used those savings to put it back into Medicare.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Cutting, President, Reform

  "State of the Union with Candy Crowley", www.cnn.com. August 19, 2012.

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• Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year.

  Joe Conason

  Cutting, Years, America

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• Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.

  John Cornyn

  War, Recovery, Law

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• President Obama knows that wars are not to be entered into lightly; he knows that overseas conflicts don't only do damage in the land in which they are fought, but in the land of those who fight them, as well.

  Lincoln Chafee

  War, Fighting, Land

  "Lincoln Chafee DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Students of America, working families of America: President Obama will not turn his back on you.

  Lincoln Chafee

  America, President, Students

  "Lincoln Chafee DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

  Jeff Goodell

  President, Climate, Tests

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• President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.

  Jeff Goodell

  President, Danger, Radical

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• President Obama, don't you think you should follow in the footsteps of your predecessor? Remember, President George W. Bush? He stayed out of the political arena, and he let you, his successor, do your job.

  Sean Hannity

  Jobs, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I'm not just going to go on these fishing expeditions. I didn't do that with President Obama. We didn't go through this with President [Barack] Obama. I think the world and certainly the American voters understand that Donald Trump has mass holdings. He's worth billions of dollars. He's been very successful in business. And I think the American voters understood that when they voted him in.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Successful, Thinking, Fishing

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I know President Obama and Secretary Clinton are committed to bringing America together. This needs to be a time of redemption, not a time of recrimination.

  Paul Ryan

  America, President, Together

  Source: time.com

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• African-American people adore President Obama.

  Julianne Malveaux

  People, African American, President

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Regret, Imagination, President

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• We didn't hold President Obama as accountable as we might have.

  Julianne Malveaux

  President, Might

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• I think the takeaway from not holding President Obama accountable is, no matter how enthusiastic you are about Hillary Clinton, no matter how enthusiastic you are, the first thing that needs to happen is that people need to start planning how to hold her accountable.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Thinking, People, President

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• I serve on the Institute of the Black World's National Commission on African-American Reparations, and we have asked the President [Barack Obama] to, by executive order, establish a commission to study reparations. He can do this without Congressional approval. While I am not optimistic, I do hope that President Obama considers this in these waning months of his Presidency.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Optimistic, Order, African American

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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