“I’m going to go off-script here for a second and just say I really like this guy. When you meet Sal and you meet his family, you are just absolutely convinced that this is what America is all about. And it just makes you
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Quotes: Barack Obama Talks About the George W. Bush-Era Tax Cuts
“If they feel very strongly about it, then I want to get a sense of how they intend to pay for it.”
– BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States, on what he plans to ask Republicans when the two sides convene this week to …
Quotes: U.S. President Barack Obama Talks Economy Issues at the G20
“The most important thing that the United States can do for the world economy is to grow, because we continue to be the world’s largest market and a huge engine for all other countries to grow,”
– BARACK OBAMA, President of the …
Quotes: President Obama ‘Discouraged’ About Economy
“I do get discouraged, I mean, there are times where I thought the economy would [have] gotten better by now.”
– PRESIDENT OBAMA, addressing the slow economic recovery on CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday (via Slate)
Demoted: Obama No Longer the World’s Most Powerful
Talk about kicking a man when he’s down.
Quotes: Sylvester Stallone on Barack Obama
“I voted, did you? Gotta get the Manchurian Candidate out of the driver’s seat before we’re all soaring off a cliff into oblivion. Be smart. [...] The Manchurian Candidate was a movie about a fake president who was put there by
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2010 Election Soundbites: Yes, They Really Said It
Anything’s possible when lodged in the heat of a victorious moment. Even Dracula made it in to the 2010 political yearbook.
What Will Obama Say Tomorrow?
With the Democrats looking like they will suffer major losses in today’s midterm elections, tomorrow is the first day of Obama’s Act II. How will he handle it?
Quotes: Young Voters Feeling Ambivalent
“It’s not the fad anymore. It’s not the fad to be politically knowledgeable and active.”
– JESSICA KIRSNER, University of Miami junior and vice president of the school’s College Democrats; many former Obama volunteers …
Quotes: Esquire Thinks David Brooks Is Forgiving Of Racism
“Culturally, [Obama] will have to demonstrate that even though he comes from an unusual background, he is a fervent believer in the old-fashioned bourgeois virtues: order, self-discipline, punctuality and personal
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President Obama Posts ‘It Gets Better’ Video for Gay Youth
“You are not alone. You didn’t do anything wrong. You didn’t do anything to deserve being bullied. And there is a whole world waiting for you, filled with possibilities.”
– PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, in a YouTube message directed …
Quotes: Indian-American Scholar on Barack Obama’s Plans to Visit Pakistan
“This is going to do some damage to the relationship. Now you will hear the expression in New Delhi ‘re-hyphenation.’”
– SUMIT GANGULY, Indian-American scholar, on U.S. President Barack Obama’s intention to visit Pakistan, …
