“Why is Barack Obama literally trying to push people to snap? Why is he doing this? It's as though in some way he's attacking the very sanity of people in this country. Why is he doing this? Why is he deliberately making people so upset? What is driving him? Anybody got any ideas?”— Rush Limbaugh, theatlantic.com
“If we're going to have universal background checks on virtually everybody who buys a gun, you think maybe it's time to require a background check on anybody wanting to be president? I would submit to you that we still have not had a background check on Barack Obama.”— Rush Limbaugh, theatlantic.com
“His incompetence, his amorality, his carnage stops with us right here, right now, starting in the Midwest. Limit it to four years, I believe, I really do believe this. In history, we’ll look back on this presidency as an aberrant moment in American history, but if Donald Trump is reelected, I believ…”— Joe Biden, rev.com
“His own FBI director recently testified to Congress that extreme right-wing groups, white nationalists posed the greatest threat to racially motivated domestic terrorism. And what has Trump done? He’s poured fuel on the fire. He’s retweeted postings from extremists and white nationalists. He’s cutti…”— Joe Biden, rev.com
“Khloé: It’s not about the color of skin. It’s about the chemistry. I think President Obama is so handsome. Howard: You would have sex with Obama if he was single? Khloé: I would do it for our country.”— Khloé Kardashian, amazon.com
“My sense is, following some success that I had in Congress, and working with Republicans to actually get things signed into law, including both President Obama and President Trump’s administrations, that I may have an ability to work with people who think differently than I do, come to a different c…”— Beto O'Rourke, vanityfair.com
“Vanessa Baxter: Ed made up a whole fake backstory about himself just to trick people into trusting him? Mike Baxter: Yep. Basically, he's Obama.”— Michael Shipley, Vanessa Baxter, Nancy Travis, imdb.com
“You will not die! Stanley! Stanley! Barack is President! You are black, Stanley!”— Paul Lieberstein, Michael Scott, Steve Carell, imdb.com
“I shouldn’t make fun of the blacks. President Obama is a personal friend of mine. He was over to the house yesterday, but the mop broke.”— Don Rickles, hollywoodreporter.com
“We often do get the best and the brightest—Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, for example. They are brilliant, as have been many other presidents. But big money especially is undermining the integrity of the public process and posing enormous risks to the honesty of the electoral process. Ref…”— Walter Mondale, historynet.com
“Some people just don't want to see change, but thankfully there are a lot of people more optimistic for something new in music, even with the bigger picture like with Obama getting elected.”— Kid Cudi, theguardian.com
“What makes us American is not a question of what we look like, or where our names come from, or the way we pray. What makes us American is our fidelity to a set of ideals – that all of us are created equal; that all of us deserve the chance to make of our lives what we will; that all of us share an…”— Barack Obama, facebook.com
“This is about young people who grew up in America – kids who study in our schools, young adults who are starting careers, patriots who pledge allegiance to our flag. These Dreamers are Americans in their hearts, in their minds, in every single way but one: on paper.”— Barack Obama, facebook.com
“At a time when so much of our politics is trying to manage this clash of cultures brought about by globalization and technology and migration, the role of stories to unify — as opposed to divide, to engage rather than to marginalize — is more important than ever.”— Barack Obama, nytimes.com
“America is indeed a place where all things are possible: that is its greatest promise and, perhaps, its gravest peril.”— David Remnick, newyorker.com
“For us to have had this opportunity and to be able to make this much change, as much as we wish that we could have gotten everything done, it’s remarkable.”— Barack Obama, newyorker.com
“So regardless of the station we occupy; we have to try harder; to start with the premise that each of our fellow citizens loves this country just as much as we do; that they value hard work and family like we do; that their children are just as curious and hopeful and worthy of love as our own.”— Barack Obama, latimes.com
“Race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society. Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were ten, twenty, thirty years ago — no matter what some will say [...] but we are still not where we need to be.”— Barack Obama, youtube.com