Barack Quote by Tony Kushner

Barack Obama knows a lot about a lot of things.

— Jonathan Chait

Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.

— Henry Louis Gates

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

Barack Obama is an intellectual.

— Jonathan Chait

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

Barack Obama is extremely smart.

— Jonathan Chait

Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

— George Will

I think what President [Barack] Obama has done is to chart a steady course. When I was there, the first four years we had…

— Hillary Clinton

Barack Obama is an opportunist, mostly supported by the financial institutions. He had no positions on anything. He's very intelligent. If you look at…

— Noam Chomsky

The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better…

— David Herbert Donald

I have tremendous faith in President Obama's skills. He's a long-term visionary.

— Deepak Chopra