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The Obama Administration has been an unmitigated disaster -- Osama bin Laden
Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration. -- Valerie Jarrett
On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law. -- Ted Cruz
The examples of the Obama Administration 'stimulating' jobs everywhere on the planet except here in America are endless. -- Bob Beauprez
Instead of cutting waste, the Obama Administration is hurting workers. President Obama should stop protecting wasteful government spending. -- Timothy Griffin
We know that working with small businesses to create jobs will do more to help our economy than anything the Obama Administration has tried to do. -- Marsha Blackburn
The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights and religious liberties of our people. -- Marco Rubio
It is the policies of the Obama Administration that has led to a stagnated economy as well as high unemployment, as well as many of the other issues that we face. -- Herman Cain
In a two-year period, all my dreams came true: the birth of a son... publishing a best-selling book... launching a successful organization... joining the [Barack] Obama Administration... And then all my nightmares came true. -- Van Jones
Here in Tennessee, instead of the big spending, big government, job killing agenda of the Obama Administration, Tennesseans have tightened their belts and are struggling to find jobs that will enable them to support their families. -- Marsha Blackburn
And under the new guidelines issued by the Obama Administration, Federal agents will not pursue pot-smoking patients in states that allow medical marijuana. This new policy is called 'Don't Ask, Don't -- What Was I Talking About?' -- Jay Leno
The Obama Administration has embraced the policies of George W. Bush, and then gone much further. Wall Street bailouts went ballistic under Obama-$700 billion under Bush, but $4.5 trillion under Obama, plus another $16 trillion in zero-interest loans for Wall Street. -- Jill Stein
Over the past two years, the Obama Administration and USDA have worked to build a foundation for sustainable economic growth in rural America. At the center of our vision is an effort to increase domestic production and use of renewable energy. -- Tom Vilsack
I think the Obama Administration has done a lousy job marketing and selling and explaining this entire thing. And, as a result, all of these right-wing front organizations financed by the Koch brothers, are blanketing the airwaves with lies about Obamacare. And people are scared. -- Robert Reich
People don't realize that the Obama Administration has been, if anything, harder on whistleblowers than the Bush Administration. Part of the reason is that they know that the response will be more muted because the traditional constituency supporting whistleblowers just happen to be the same constituency as Obama's. -- Jonathan Turley
After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along at a pretty good clip. But, it just isn't so, and the light at the end of the tunnel is pretty dim. Just ask a small business owner. -- Bob Beauprez
I'm outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi. It's disgraceful that the Obama Administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks. -- Mitt Romney
The expectation in the Obama Administration, or at least the hope, is that a nuclear deal with the West could ultimately moderate Iranian behavior by helping to integrate the country more thoroughly into the international system. Will this happen? It's impossible to predict, of course. We will only know if we get there. -- Dexter Filkins
Now in its third year in office, the Obama Administration has never championed the cause of human rights. Its slow reaction in June 2009 to the stealing of the election in Iran and the birth of the 'Green Movement' there, and its delay in backing the rebellions in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, are evidence of this problem. -- Elliott Abrams
When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%. You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true. -- William J. Clinton
It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they would like respect for human rights to grow around the world, as all Americans would, they have no actual policy to achieve that goal - and they subordinate it to all their other policy goals. -- Elliott Abrams
It has been an honor to work in the Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise. -- Dennis Ross
Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration. -- Richard Armitage
From the outset, the Obama administration has recognized that building a robust skills infrastructure means building strong partnerships with community colleges. -- Thomas Perez
The Obama administration says we only destroy the privacy of non-Americans. That is not true. The government is spying on Americans. -- Glenn Greenwald
Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal. -- Cornel West
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The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action. -- Valerie Jarrett
Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated. -- George Will
I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions. -- Dick Cheney
Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains. -- Thomas Frank
The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I'm not at all sure that that's what the Obama administration believes. -- Dick Cheney
Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods. -- Jon Voight
The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process, far from any battlefield. The Obama administration has not only asserted exactly that power in theory, but has exercised it in practice. -- Glenn Greenwald
We know with certainty that the Obama administration has re-defined 'militants' to include any military-age males they kill regardless of whether they were actually doing anything wrong. We know with certainty that the U.S. Government has detained and publicly branded as 'terrorists' people they knew at the time were innocent. -- Glenn Greenwald
In the first weeks of the Obama administration, 'bipartisanship' was the reigning buzzword, and when the Beltway thinks 'bipartisan,' it pictures President Reagan and Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill putting aside their differences and forging a legislative partnership, a ruddy pair of genial patriarchs bonding over the Blarney Stone. -- James Wolcott
The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them. -- Jon Voight
There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do. -- Oliver North
The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything that's transpired since the famous Cairo speech in 2009, it's all been an embrace of those who are the most radical elements in that part of the world. That is not a good sign for America's foreign policy. -- Oliver North
The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave. -- Rick Santorum
I work hard and I have a standard of excellence - and I expect everyone at the Interior Department to meet that same standard. I delegate a lot. I might appear to be doing a lot of different things, but there's a strong team helping me. I believe we're going to have the strongest team of any agency in the Obama administration. -- Ken Salazar
Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change. -- Barack Obama
Energy is under siege by the Obama administration. -- Donald Trump
The Obama administration will never say 'radical Islam.' Never. -- Dennis Prager
My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience. -- Vali Nasr
The Obama administration has a nasty habit of equating basic conservative values with terrorism. -- Tom Fitton
The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record. -- Barton Gellman
We are talking about institutionalizing a program on solar development that will outlast the Obama administration. -- Ken Salazar
Ms. Clinton, like the Obama administration more broadly, believes that appeasing Islamists... promotes peace and stability. -- Louie Gohmert
Embarrassingly for Obama, it appeared that his administration had jumped the gun on banning the bullets. -- John R. Lott Jr.
Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration's enormous, taxpayer-funded 'investments' in politically connected biofuel companies. -- Michelle Malkin
The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings. -- Aaron Klein
I must say I'm surprised by how skeptical of the [Barack] Obama administration The Nation has been. -- Edward Snowden
We cannot afford four more years of this misguided socialist policies from President Obama and his administration. -- Rick Perry
I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration. -- Robert M. Gates
If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians? -- Newt Gingrich
It's so sad to see how few people in the Obama administration have any private sector experience. -- Foster Friess
[Barack] Obama administration looking at taking a more aggressive stance and some of the Arab countries coming together. -- Juan Williams
We have seen the big loan servicers drag their feet in the Obama administration's well-intentioned mortgage modification program. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
Throughout [Barack] Obama's career, he promised to limit the state secrets doctrine which the Bush-Cheney administration had abused enormously. -- Nat Hentoff
We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration. -- Tim Pawlenty
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration. -- Elliott Abrams
The Tsarnaev brothers, the elder brother made a public call to jihad and the [Barack] Obama administration didn't target it. -- Ted Cruz
The America that has flourished for more than two centuries is being quietly but steadily dismantled by the Obama administration. -- Thomas Sowell
Since declaring that she would not serve in a second Obama administration, Clinton has dismissed suggestions that she will run in 2016. -- Ron Fournier
On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent. -- Bob Barr
The Obama administration has been curtailing press freedom - but that hasn't ended the press' drool-cup worship for their beloved president. -- Ben Shapiro
[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling. -- Emmett Tyrrell
The Obama administration is on notice - they will not be allowed to regulate what they have been unable to legislate. -- Fred Upton
The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American,and a threat to every private sector job in this country. -- Rick Perry
As far as the Ukraine is concerned, it's a mess. And that's under the Obama's administration, with his strong ties to NATO. -- Donald Trump
For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations. -- Barton Gellman
This is a dishonest administration, because it is becoming clear that the unemployment statistics of the [Barack] Obama administration are not believable. -- Nat Hentoff
The Obama administration will continue to fight for a comprehensive immigration solution that includes AgJobs and a stable workforce for our farms. -- Tom Vilsack
Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government. -- Eliot Spitzer
The Obama administration's plan is to have the Federal Reserve regulate banks that might pose a 'systemic risk' if they were to fail. -- Thomas Frank
The violation of press freedoms has been egregious under this administration, even as the press fetes President Obama as an honest and effective commander-in-chief. -- Ben Shapiro
I believe the Obama administration, from the president on down, has taken a very weak position regarding granting Palestine statehood at the United Nations. -- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Every government, from the Obama administration right through to Angela Merkel, the Eurozone and the IMF, promise to save the banks, not the economy. -- Michael Hudson
President [Barack] Obama, it took him a number of days to do [appointments to Administration] and it took former President Bill Clinton even longer. -- Kristen Welker
In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step. -- Kathleen Troia McFarland
Scandals never stop an administration unless the media wants them to stop an administration, which means that no scandal is ever gonna stop Obama. -- Rush Limbaugh
I say personally because I am 84 years old, and [Barack Obama's] is the first administration that has scared me in terms of my lifespan. -- Nat Hentoff
The administration [of Barack Obama] is going to have to figure out, you know, a tough response on the basis of this [Russian] hacking. -- John Kasich
The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined. -- Mitch McConnell
The Obama administration kind of shows how you can use diplomacy to bring the most important countries together and get the whole world on board. -- Chris Mooney
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The Obama-Clinton administration tried repeatedly to remove our cruisers from service, then refused to modernize these very old, aging, aging ships. They're old. They're tired. -- Donald Trump
We have 23 million people unemployed. They're America's forgotten people. It's the damndest thing that this much collateral damage is acceptable to this [Barack Obama] administration. -- Lou Dobbs
Crafty politician that he is, Obama was smart enough to set low enough standards for his administration to claim 'victory' by the summer of 2011 or so. -- Thomas P.M. Barnett
The Obama administration took rapid and decisive action to restructure GM and Chrysler. Within a fairly short period of time these companies were working effectively again. -- Austin Ligon
The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.. -- Tavis Smiley
The Obama administration has revealed the size of America's nuclear arsenal. We have 1,000 warheads aimed at China, 1,000 aimed at Russia, and the rest aimed at Fox News. -- Jay Leno
If the Obama administration responds with an even harsher hand against me, they can be assured that they'll soon find themselves facing an equally harsh public response. -- Edward Snowden
You know what the [Barack] Obama administration keeps getting wrong is whenever anything bad happens they focus on law-abiding citizens instead of focusing on the bad guys. -- Ted Cruz
The Obama administration has attempted to prosecute more journalists and journalistic sources under the same Espionage Act she was being investigated under in all previous presidencies combined. -- Julian Assange
Even today, when the Obama administration has liberalized travel to Cuba - and failed to reverse that liberalization when Alan Gross was imprisoned - there are limits. -- Elliott Abrams
Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration? -- Newt Gingrich
Given the pervasive secrecy of the Bush-Cheney administration, and the sorry consequences of that disposition, President Barack Obama's early emphasis on openness in government seems almost inevitable. -- Noah Feldman
I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the President is treated as racism. -- Glenn Reynolds
I have to say, early on, to be fair, in the [Barack] Obama administration, the Obama White House said that Fox News was not a true news organization. -- Donald Trump
As usual, the people who are poorest - the blacks, Hispanics and disabled people - are going to suffer more than anyone else under the [Barack] Obama administration. -- Nat Hentoff
The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further chilling business investment and job creation. -- Glenn Hubbard
In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as a kind of private letter having no binding policy impact. -- Elliott Abrams
Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project. -- Noam Chomsky
The Obama administration, like those before it, promotes a disturbingly narrow interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, misapplying the facts of old analog cases to a radically different digital world. -- Barton Gellman
That was an exception within the [Barack] Obama administration's economic policy, a crisis that he inherited from the previous administration, and felt it was essential to carry through on. -- Judy Woodruff
But I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that I can remember in the past. -- Ehud Barak
The [Barack] Obama administration has both their hands in your pocket. They're trying to take every hard dollar you make to give it out in handouts to buy votes. -- Ted Cruz
The bonds of trust between the United States and Israel have been frayed, but even the hostility and disrespect the Obama administration has shown has not severed those bonds. -- Adam Hasner
Pressed by the Obama administration and consumers, Kraft, Nestle, Pepsi, Campbell and General Mills, among others, have begun to trim the loads of salt, sugar and fat in many products. -- Michael Moss
The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before. -- Jill Abramson
It was the Obama administration that cut a faux deal with the Iranians that will not disarm Iran of its nuclear capabilities, and will in fact accelerate their nuclear development. -- Ben Shapiro
Who knew, when you were watching the Verizon ad and the guy said, 'Can you hear me now,' that was really just a mic check for the Obama administration. -- Rick Perry
The [Barack] Obama administration almost appears as though it is afraid of the intelligence community. They're afraid of death by a thousand cuts - you know, leaks and things like that. -- Edward Snowden
Vice President Joe Biden said today that 'Syria must be held accountable.' Unfortunately, the Obama administration has never employed an accountant, so they have no idea how to do that. -- Jay Leno
Are we witnessing an Obama 'Wag the Dog' moment with Boko Haram in Nigeria? I say yes. Consider all the scandals facing the Obama administration, especially Benghazi and the Select Committee. -- Allen West
By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs. -- John Cornyn
[Barack] Obama administration, the [George W.]Bush administration have done nothing. And as China has manipulated its currency, we`ve lost trillions of dollars of wealth and millions of good-paying jobs. -- Charles Schumer
The Obama administration is not helping small businesses create jobs. In fact, it is responsible for the regulatory uncertainty nearly 50 percent of small-business owners cite as responsible for their lack of hiring. -- Sher Valenzuela

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