Amusing Quote by George Will

Barack Obama is an intellectual.

— Jonathan Chait

It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.

— Tony Kushner

“Obama doesn't know how to be President. He doesn't know how the world works. He's incompetent. He's an amateur!”

— Bill Clinton

Barack Obama knows a lot about a lot of things.

— Jonathan Chait

I thought Obama was brilliant. He's so informed. He's circumspect. He's articulate. He's thoughtful. Well, I think in my lifetime, there's never been anything…

— David Shuster

Obama's got a great sense of humor, but mainly he has a great thinking presence, which is uncommon. It's hard to imagine being able…

— Roy Blount, Jr

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

Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.

— Timothy Noah

Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man comfortable with…

— George Will

[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.

— Toni Morrison

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

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