A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.
Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.
President Obama himself has attributed the legitimacy of the Jewish State not to its historic identity as Jewish territory, but to the Holocaust.
I am an austere president.
Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is not an authoritarian form of government. This is a constitutional republic, and the president doesn't allow or disallow. The president can't buy or purchase.
Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.
I've written before that the president is our national avatar - a stand-in for what we believe we are, or want to be.
I would submit a balanced budget if elected president, and it would be painful.
I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.
Barack Obama was a good president, and hopefully, Donald Trump is a good president.
If President Barack Obama had not been in the White House, we would not have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today.
If it hadn't been for that march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday, there would be no Barack Obama as President of the United States of America.
I think President Barack Obama has been a good president.
We commend President Obama and his administration for taking this strong action against Iceland and its barbaric whaling industry... and we urge the President to take similar action against Japan and Norway as well!
Republicans used to bash President Barack Obama for alienating American allies, but Trump is turning off our partners like no one ever has.
I was a rock star. I was the president of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
The goal isn't, and shouldn't be, to block Hillary Clinton. The goal is to make sure a potential President Clinton is beholden to a better Congress and a better Democratic Party.
President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.
The goal of the eight Benghazi committees, one of which produced and nurtured 'emailgate,' has been clear from the start: to prevent Hillary Clinton from becoming president of the United States.