Chief of staff Quote by Anonymous

Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.

— Reince Priebus

I am basically a supporter of Barack Obama - it is not easy to be a post-partisan president in a hyper-partisan era.

— Howard Gardner

The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on…

— John Podhoretz

[Barack Obama] needs to really engage both Republicans and Democrats.

— John Kasich

President [Barack] Obama's choice of Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff was questionable, and perhaps coverups around the police violence against black people…

— Julianne Malveaux

While President Obama assumes that at their core the Republican leadership team is just trying to do what's best for America, Mitch McConnell and…

— Krystal Ball

Barack Obama basically ran as a liberal suburban Republican.

— Rick Wilson

President Obama has got the most moderate temperament.

— Susan Rice

President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is.

— Yousef Munayyer

When I worked in the Obama White House, people in national security positions had been uneasy making broad public arguments, particularly about political matters.

— Jennifer Palmieri

President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost…

— Jonathan Chait

I like Obama, but I understand that his hands are tied, the way Congress is reacting. It's just partisan politics everywhere, and don't know…

— Ice Cube