Last year Quote by David Ignatius

Barack Obama is an incredibly intelligent, thoughtful, decisive person in pursuing the agenda he sets.

— Hillary Clinton

Obama is very much an establishment sort of guy. The whole image of him as a transcendent figure was based on style rather than…

— Paul Krugman

Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to…

— Dee Dee Myers

With Barack, there's an emotional need to succeed, to win, to obtain victory. He always believes that he's the smartest person in the room.

— David Garrow

In fact, Obama's intellectual curiosity and suppleness of mind is, in my view, one of his biggest selling points, whatever your political beliefs.

— Norah Vincent

Sometimes societies become too stupid to survive. A nation that takes Barack Obama's current rhetorical flourishes seriously is certainly well advanced along that dismal…

— Mark Steyn

But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract ideas or…

— Jonah Goldberg

Barack Obama is an intellectual.

— Jonathan Chait

Say what you will about Donald Trump, he cares. He cares about things I don't, and he has some awful ideas, and he is…

— Richard Cohen

I like [Barak] Obama. I like him. So how far does rationality help to persuade anybody? You know, I'm not so sure.

— George Saunders

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he…

— David Axelrod

President Obama is a gifted politician. He is gifted with rhetoric virtuosity. He is gifted with the ability to lie directly to camera without…

— Ben Shapiro