Barack Quote by Gwen Ifill

Obama is not an African American president, but a president of all Americans. It doesn't matter if you are black, white, Hispanic, he's the…

— John Lewis

Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since…

— Douglas Wilder

When he ran for president in 2008, Mr. Obama was the candidate of the young and the demographically ascendant. He eventually attracted strong majorities…

— Joy Reid

Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with…

— Chris Rock

I didn't elect [Barack] Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time.

— Danny Glover

Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist country, erected…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Barack Obama is uniquely qualified to speak about the knowledge, experience and temperament that the presidency requires. And I know he is raring to…

— Hillary Clinton

[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

In many people's many people's minds this is the sole reason Barack Obama was elected. He was elected to fix race relations.

— Rush Limbaugh

I've never thought that I would see any man of color, not just a black president, but any man of color, I never thought…

— Donte Stallworth

A lot of people are wanting him [Barack Obama] to be the president just because he's black. But I think he does have some…

— Trey Songz

In '08, Barrack Obama was famously elected president. Even though I'd supported McCain and dreaded what I feared Barrack might do, I felt a…

— Orson Bean