First Term Quotes

37 quotes by 34 authors

One of the challenges of any second-term administration is you always lose a certain amount of identification with the Congress, because everybody in the Congress… — Roy Blunt
Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him. — Ron Fournier
In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes… — Kevin O'Leary
The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate. — John Podhoretz
Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government. — Eliot Spitzer
You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them — Evelyn Waugh
The Chancellor looked down at the empty table for a minute. Then he shrugged, looked up, and gave a surprisingly jaunty smile. "All in favor… — Patrick Rothfuss
If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas… — James Joyce
For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything - which is another way of saying they felt Bush and the… — Elliott Abrams
In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too general… — Elliott Abrams
I think that President Obama has done the best he possibly could during the first term considering that his opposition was willing to do whatever… — Stephen Stills
This is my first term. I was told it was going to be an exciting term, and a lot of things would be done, and… — Virginia Foxx
The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly different… — John Hull
I believe that we were not as effective in the second term dealing with this issue of nuclear none proliferation as we had been during… — Dick Cheney
Though President Obama promised during the 2008 campaign to pass the DREAM Act, he never made it a priority and failed to bring Republicans and… — Juan Williams
We're committed to working with Congress to doing what the president said he was always going to do, which is cut the deficit in half… — Christina Romer
I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term. — Scott Walker

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