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I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.
I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.
If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
If President Barack Obama had not been in the White House, we would not have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today.
President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.
When the demons of criticism have fled the thoughts, the Angels of beauty preside - oh cheerful sweet world exorcised!
I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.
I am President of all the people, good, bad, or indifferent, and as long as my opinions are known, ought perhaps to keep myself out of their squabbles.
The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president.
The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan.
Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.
We're committed to working with Congress to doing what the president said he was always going to do, which is cut the deficit in half over the - over his first term.
We've had a tone-deaf White House that does not want to be reasonable. President Obama won't meet with the Republicans. It's all his way.
In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
Today I am announcing my support for Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States of America.
How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President?
I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.
