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.
I'm not going to give President Bush any advice. He knows. He knows what I think.
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.
You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.
President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
The president's priority is to protect the safety and security of the American people. That's the physical security of the American people as well as the prosperity of the American people.
I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.
I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.
Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.
See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.
Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.
On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.
Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.
