Being Quote by Tina Brown

It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious…

— George Will

We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There's some condescension in it, but…

— Evan Thomas

You know, 'Professor Obama' has been a label applied to him by Republicans and Democrats alike. He's a very smart guy. But I think…

— Mitch McConnell

Some of the beauty of a university is that every professor is given a lot of autonomy over what he or she does. That's…

— Sal Khan

Just to hear President Obama speak - he's eloquent, he's so classy.

— Jolene Ivey

The irony is that [Barack] Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he…

— Nat Hentoff

Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of the paranoid style in…

— George Will

Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.

— Nancy Gibbs

“The election of Obama was a profoundly unserious act by an unserious nation, and, if you were Putin, the ChiComs, or the ayatollahs, you…

— Mark Steyn

Obama is ratcheting up his class warfare to levels that would make Marxists blush.

— David Limbaugh

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