Election Quote by David Brooks

[Barack] Obama won two elections but certainly the first one not because people wanted that agenda of his. He never told them what his…

— Rush Limbaugh

Remember, the first presidential candidate to reject public financing for both the primary and general election was... Barack Obama, in 2008. He did it,…

— Jeff Greenfield

Barack Obama was first elected after a period of profound failure by elite and government institutions, from finance to foreign policy to Hurricane Katrina,…

— Ari Melber

If it hadn't been for that march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday, there would be no Barack Obama as President of…

— John Lewis

Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing…

— Ron Fournier

“What distinguished Obama was his determination not to wait until he had forged a longer political record of his achievement, and the historic conjunction…

— Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson

Presidents are selected, not elected.

— Anonymous

There clearly was an Obama administration no-holds-barred attempt to clear the path to the presidency for Hillary Clinton.

— Tom Fitton

A President cannot always be popular.

— Harry S. Truman

Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.

— Tina Brown

Barack Obama didn't get elected president, would never have been elected president, had he decided to run as a black candidate. In order to…

— Gwen Ifill

President Obama is the least transparent president in the history of this country.

— Donald Trump