Barack Obama Quotes

If you [as a Presidential candidate] identify a problem, you are going to be expected to have a solution.

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

Texas Democrats should be more concerned about what President Obama is doing to destroy the party, and the nation, than about what I am doing in going after him for that.

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.

Politicians do not like to alienate voters no matter how lofty the goals.

Politicians must let voters know what they think about issues before the election. Judges should not.

The Presidency is a four-year contract with the American electorate. But with television news, the American people can more easily monitor that contract, being sure every "i" is dotted and every "t" crossed.

Republicans lobby; Democrats march.

Look at those Republican [Presidential Primary Nomination] debates. I feel embarrassed as an American when I hear them orate.

The two old parties … fight only for office. Observe how utterly both parties in this respect lack program and new leadership.

I think the GOP, the Grand Old Party, the Republicans, they will regroup.

We consistently allow politicians to get away with playing identity politics rather than demanding evidence of what they're going to do and how they're going to do it.

If you will trust me with your vote, you can count on me to take those values to Washington.

It is unimaginable that anyone, right or left, can aspire to be president without having thought about this. Every candidate has the stage; the Republicans have used it to fuss unproductively over the Common Core. The Democrats have all but refused to speak.

The biggest problem for the Republican Party has never been its primary calendar, its campaign tactics, or a lack of trainings. The party's biggest problem is what it believes, what it says, and how it governs.

Rare is the election campaign that truly hinges on a single issue.

I think that's the beauty of elections: You can't hide from who you are. The more honestly and directly you communicate to people why you're doing this, the way in which you want to serve them, I just think that the better, more informed decision that they can make.

Republicans need to stop making assumptions, and they need to start talking to younger people, people of color, and ask them - not talk to them - ask them, 'What is it that we can do better? How do we earn your vote? How do we earn the ability for you to see that we can be the party that will make your life better and that of your children?'

When we look at the majority of the American people, when they believe that their leadership is letting them down, there is only one option out there for us, and that's to change that leadership.

For years, President Obama has chastised Republicans, used immigrants as props for political purposes, and time and again deflected responsibility from his own party's failure to act on immigration reform.

We are tired of Obama's empty speeches and his misguided rhetoric.

The No. 1 thing I want a voter to think about when they see my name, or hear my name, is what I stand for, and what I want to do for them and their family while elected.

I will be extremely happy if people start questioning political parties when they make electoral alliances.

Honestly, if you are going to run for public office, I think it's incumbent... to speak up.

So far, Senate Republicans are good at getting Facebook likes and town halls and not much else. Do something.