Barack Quotes
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Barack is one of the smartest men we will see in our lifetime.
michelle obama— Campaign rally, Las Vegas, Nevada (17 January 2008)
We're going to treat them [FOX News] the way we would treat an opponent. As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don't need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.
anita dunn— The New York Times interview, October 11, 2009. [1]
There haven’t been fundamental structural changes in America. There’s been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
— Interview with The Root, July 21, 2009.
Translating hope into action is something Barack has done for his entire career.
michelle obama— Letter to The Advocate (21 October 2008)
And then there’s this guy, Barack Obama, who lost – I could take up a whole afternoon talking about his failures, but – he lost his first race for Congress, and now he gets to call himself my husband,
michelle obama— [1], CNSNews, May 20, 2013.
56,000 companies have already benefited from the schemes that we have brought in. If we have taken the advice of the Conservative Party, no money would have been used. As Barack Obama said only yesterday, doing nothing is not an option.
gordon brown— Prime Minister's Questions, 11 February 2008 YouTube video
I hear these people saying [Barack Obama]'s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested. I mean, it’s crazy.
robert gibbs— Interview with The Hill, August 10, 2010.[4]
I think history will judge him very harshly for not having seized the opportunity in the year 2000 to embrace the offer that was very courageously made by the then Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barack, which involved the Israelis agreeing to 90 per cent of what the Palestinians had wanted.
john howard— On Yasser Arafat
— "History will judge Arafat harshly: Howard". ABC News Online. November 11, 2004. Retrieved on 2007-03-14.
If I were running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and be praying as many times as possible for a victory not only for [Barack] Obama but also for the Democrats.
john howard— Television interview on the Nine Network, February 11, 2007.
I’m not worried about where Barack Obama is from. I’m worried about where he’s going.
bobby jindal— Alluding to the "Birther" controversy
— At a American Legislative Exchange Council meeting, New Orleans, August 2011
— "Bobby Jindal Just Killed Decades of Republican Tax Policy", , November 15, 2012; retrieved 2012-11-18
[Barack] Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true. He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist.
alan keyes— Interview with KHAS-TV, Hastings, Nebraska, February 19, 2009. [6]
I do not know what the Democratic Party spent, in toto, on the 2004 election, but what they seem to have gotten for it is Barack Obama. Let us savor.
Peggy Noonan— "So Much to Savor" in The Wall Street Journal (4 November 2004)
On Barack Obama :
evan thomas— “There is a slightly creepy cult of personality about all of this. [...] He's a — I think, a deeply manipulative guy.”
- — Interview with Charlie Rose, November 5, 2008.[2] (the day after Obama's election)
— “I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above — above the world, he's sort of God.”
- — Interview with Chris Matthews, June 5, 2009.[3][4]
Political correctness is going to kill us. Political correctness led to 9/11, political correctness led to Barack Hussein Obama -- political correctness is a societal HIV. (America has) a full-blown case of AIDS and we're the cure.
mark williams— April 14, 2010, at a Tea Party Express bus stop in Boston, Massachusetts.
I think the people that Barack Obama has been associating with are anti-American, by and large.
michele bachmann— on MSNBC's "Hardball With Chris Matthews," October 17, 2008on Barack Obama's advisers
Absolutely, I'm very concerned that [Barack Obama] may have anti-American views.
michele bachmann— on MSNBC's "Hardball With Chris Matthews," October 17, 2008on whether Barack Obama himself is anti-American
I never questioned Barack Obama's patriotism.
michele bachmann— "'I never called all liberals anti-American'", Politico, 20 October 2008, retrieved on 2011-05-27
Barack Obama being young, handsome and sun-tanned is going to get along with you swimmingly.
Silvio Berlusconi— On the US president-elect to Dmitry Medvedev, as quoted in 'Italy's Berlusconi hails "suntanned" Obama' in Reuters (6 November 2008), "Berlusconi faces race row as he calls America's first black president 'suntanned'" in Mail on Sunday (6 November 2008)
People ask if I can compete with the money of Hillary and Barack . I hope at the end of the day, they can compete with my ideas and my experience.
joseph ("joe") biden— "Biden officially running for president". MSNBC.com. January 31, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
Barack Obama’s repudiation of Jeremiah Wright didn’t go over well with many of the Kos Kids. To say the least. Daily Kos: “Uncle Tom” Obama.
charles foster johnson— April 29, 2008 [32]
Agence France Presse says the Communist Party doesn’t endorse Barack Obama, but that’s just the media covering for him again. Because they do endorse Obama.
charles foster johnson— October 15, 2008 [40]
Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single democratic primary. I'll predict that right now.
william "bill" kristol— Fox News Sunday, December 17, 2006 [2]
I think he is a transformational figure. He is a new generation coming into the world onto the world stage, onto the American stage, and for that reason I'll be voting for Senator Barack Obama.
colin powell— Meet the Press (19 October 2008)
Well, the reason why is because I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses and we've never voted. That's not to say that I don't think Barack Obama - President Obama - is a very smart individual and he seems like he means well. Prophecy is what we all have to go by now.
prince— When asked why he doesn't vote, Tavis Smiley Show (April 27, 2009)
Like other presidents before him, Barack Obama inherited a recession. But unlike them, he has made it worse, not better.
mitt romney— "Mr. President, here's how to lift our economy". USA Today. 2009-12-03.
Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history.
mitt romney— "Mitt Romney: Obama isn't serious about America's financial health". New Hampshire Union Leader. 2011-04-25. Retrieved on 2011-04-26. At his writing, the United States had troops fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.
We're going to treat them [FOX News] the way we would treat an opponent. As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don't need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.
anita dunn— The New York Times interview, October 11, 2009.
However strange it seems, the Republican Party really is spinning off into a bizarro-cult who believe Barack Obama is a baby-killer plotting to build death panels for the grannies of America.
— Johann Hari, "The Republican Party Is Turning Into A Cult", The Huffington Post (18 August 2009)
