Tina Brown Quotes

I think Obama is handling his image very well, but I think he lacks boldness.

I want to steer the national conversation in the right direction, from my point of view. I want to get under Robert Gibbs' skin and Rahm Emanuel's skin and Barack Obama's skin.

I think most of America is seeing the strings behind the campaign, and sees the crass political maneuvers that people are making. I mean, they're extremely apparent to me.

It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.

What Mr. [Robert F.] Kennedy says lacks only the merit of being true ... Bobby Kennedy can jump off the capital dome or whatever else he has to do to get the attention of the American people.

Sometimes heads of state have to make statements for [local] public consumption.

A politician wants to come off as a happy warrior. To be contemplative seems almost effete, fancy – dispiriting somehow to much of your audience. He [Barack Obama] is not afraid to be this way at all.

I do what I do. Barack Obama does what politicians do.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.

I feel like Obama's an Illuminati puppet.

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.

I love Obama's calm and dignity. A lot of people confuse that with being aloof, but I know people that have held that job. It's a 24-hour barrage of information.

Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.

I've gotten to believe it's more fun to play politicians than actually be them.

Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him.

President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said his job is to 'tell a story to the American people' - as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners?

The wound-tight, travel-light Obama has a distaste for the adversarial and the random. But if you stick too rigidly to a 'No Drama' rule in the White House, you risk keeping reality at bay. Presidencies are always about crisis management.

Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.

Obama's position on marriage is brazenly cynical.

I think the problem with President Obama - and I like him personally, I came into the Senate with him - is his agenda.

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.

Barack Obama is the worst President in history.

I regret any comments I have ever made which may have cast any doubt on the personal faith of our president, Mr. Obama.