Back Quote by David K. Shipler

President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years…

— Paul Ryan

On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.

— Bob Barr

I think President Barack Obama has been an extraordinarily successful president, and that this period will record that with a bunch of exclamation points.…

— Cass Sunstein

Barack Obama's been president for about eight hours; President Obama was here for eight years. So if you want to talk about numbers that…

— Kellyanne Conway

Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

The story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years…

— Paul Ryan

I don't mind bad stories when it's true, but we have an administration where the Democrats are making it very difficult. I think we're…

— Donald Trump

“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

President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's…

— Paul Ryan

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that…

— Mitt Romney

The United States had eight years of Barack Obama. He made it incredibly clear that he was a right-wing Democrat. He cited Ronald Reagan…

— Avi Lewis

So long as the global economy continues to recover, that remains Obama's No. 1 claim to successful leadership. Nothing else even comes close.

— Thomas P.M. Barnett