Barack Quote by Jeff Greenfield

George W. Bush in 2000 went to private financing for the nomination, but he accepted public funding in the general. And, quite frankly, so…

— Mark Shields

President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.

— David Brooks

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

Obama's primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they…

— Noam Chomsky

“Obama won, but he had few illusions that he had vanquished big money. “I’m an incumbent president who already had this huge network of…

— Jane Mayer

[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

Much of the establishment was actually encouraging Obama to run in 2008.

— Harry Enten

Nobody was going to beat Barack Obama in 2008. That's a fact. It was his moment. It wasn't that John McCain ran a bad…

— Martha MacCallum

I campaigned for Hillary Clinton when she was in the primaries against [Barack] Obama, actually.

— Natalie Portman

In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in…

— John Podhoretz

Barack Obama was elected President in 2008 and re-elected in 2012. The natural thing would be to suggest money on the right [wing] doesn't…

— Jane Mayer

And of course, in the case of Barack Obama, had he not won primaries - and particularly the heavily important caucus in Iowa -…

— Geoffrey Cowan