Ron Fournier Quotes

I'm overall a big fan of President Obama.

I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama.

The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.

For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything - which is another way of saying they felt Bush and the Bush years were the inescapable reference point for everything they were themselves doing.

By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated.

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.

Obama prefers to look forward, not back, as he has stated. So at least during his tenure, there will be no reliable record compiled as a cautionary tale for lawmakers and presidents in future times of crisis. This is the historical Obama.

Every president, as he nears the end of his final term in office, thinks about his place in history.

In interviews with dozens of black advisers, friends, donors and allies, few said they had ever heard Mr. Obama muse on the experience of being the first black president of the United States, a role in which every day he renders what was once extraordinary almost ordinary.

Washington's birthday is worthy of celebration - he is one of the greatest men in history. But Washington himself would likely have seen celebration of the office of the presidency itself as monarchic in nature.

Forget the historic nature of his election having to do with skin color - Obama has an opportunity offered to few presidents: the chance to set the course of the nation for decades, if not generations, to come. Who knows: perhaps in the near future, our grandchildren will spend money with Obama's face on it.

A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for President Barack Obama. Millions of conservatives who revere the Constitution, with its guarantees of freedom and limited government, have watched with alarm as the campaign season has unfolded.

If you look at the history of presidential memorials, it takes a long time to get them done.

The end of every President's second term is always a bit disappointing, isn't it?

I intend to withdraw after my second term. General Washington set the example. I will follow.

Sometimes a President seems greater after he has left office than while he was in it.

Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the White House with their children.

If every senator looks into the mirror and sees a future president, then every president looks into that same mirror and sees himself on Mount Rushmore.

I don't know if history will adjudge Barack Obama a great president, but he has been a necessary one.

Obama was never that bad or that great, and the same is probably going to go for Trump.

I love Obama. He's my favorite president of all time.

I've done 44 portraits of Obama because he's the 44th president.

Barack Obama was a good president, and hopefully, Donald Trump is a good president.

Barack Obama is probably the coolest president this country will ever have.

I think that five, 10, 50 years down the road, we'll be honoring President Barack Obama for ending two wars, stopping the economic hemorrhage and, yes, reducing the number of uninsured. And the polls won't matter.