Barack Quote by Jonathan Chait Download Open image “Barack Obama is an intellectual.” — Jonathan Chait ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Barack Intellectual
Barack Obama is an incredibly intelligent, thoughtful, decisive person in pursuing the agenda he sets. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature, and history… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is probably one of the brightest in terms of sheer intelligence... also probably the best orator we've ever had as a president. — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
Barack himself is very much a regular guy, not a silver spoon, incredibly smart, but, you know, he's a scholarship kid, made good use… — Maya Soetoro-Ng Copy Share Image
The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious… — George Will Copy Share Image
In public, Barack Obama's giving the simple version of his beliefs for the mass public. In private, he can discuss it at a really… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Because many people remembered a time when the Republican Party was not so extreme, and hadn't full grasped how much it had changed, people… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
On Obamacare, every day that goes by I have more evidence that I wish I could put in my book, on how difficult it… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
In some ways, Trump is just going to continue the trend: by continuing the norm-smashing behaviour that Republicans used in opposition. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
It's possible that the clowning and the buffoonery and the entertainment are a bigger part of what's happening than we've allowed. And that Trump… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
That's an important Obama accomplishment: he raised taxes back to Bill Clinton levels, and made a major dent in inequality doing so. That's certain… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Trump was the logical outcome of the Republican's irrational, racialized backlash to Obama that had utterly come to dominate the party's thinking. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
It's pretty clear that Hillary Clinton was a deeply, deeply flawed alternative. She had the wrong combination of the internal political chops to muscle… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
I can't imagine that I would be asked that by the president-elect [Donald Trump], or then-president [Barack Obama]. But it's - I'm very clear.… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like - the anti-war government nig... America was a source for division around the world,… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
We're in more wars today under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton than under George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan. Yet they tell you that… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I can tell you who's planning terroris attacks. The leaders of ISIL. And I can tell you where they're at. They're in Raqqa, Syria.… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The president [Barack Obama] asked for a commitment of, I think, 100,000 jobs for veterans and military spouses over the next couple of years.… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
The big story today, Barack Obama was accused of insulting Sarah Palin when he criticized Republican policies by saying, you can put lipstick on… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I think the president's [Barack Obama] position has been very clear on Syria. He wants more aggressive, he's put the Special Ops on the… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
It cannot be an American fight. And I think what the president [Barack Obama] has consistently said - which I agree with - is… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter to me where Barack Obama goes. If he wants to go to Hawaii because it's his home state, fine! Hunky-dory. Plastic… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I don't think that we really know a whole lot about Barack Obama at all that you would really call distinctive. — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom. — Edmund White Copy Share Image