Jeh Johnson Quotes

Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.

Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority.

In 2008, Barack Obama had all the wind at his back, everything going for him. He was an African-American at a time when the country was eager to do that. The Republicans had, in the view of many of us, pretty much disgraced themselves at home and abroad for eight years.

If we want to get rid of Obamacare, we're going to have to replace President Obama.

Electing a black man named Barack Obama President in the same country that elected George W. Bush - twice! - is as far-fetched as a hustler from Marcy performing at that President's inauguration. But it happened.

I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable young man [Barack Obama] has kept his demeanor, kept his temperament and has shown a power to inspire. I see what energy that he has inspired among the young. Well, it inspires us old goats too.

People are not going to reelect Barack Obama. But will the new president govern as a real conservative? We're going to have to apply the heat to make sure.

I'm so, so full of joy that America elected Obama.

Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States.

I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic.

The very fact that Barack Obama - an African-American - was twice elected to the presidency will always be the lead line in that hard-to-meld, gold-plated paragraph.

Through the potent example of his own life, President Obama enabled us to believe the best about America, and, therefore, about ourselves. That uplifting narrative - essentially equating the promise of America with his extraordinary life story - swept candidate Obama into the presidency.

In my wildest dreams, I never would have thought we'd come to the point where were talking about the re-election of a black president.

America was magnificently characterized in November of 2008 when we elected, for the first time, an African-American President of the United States.

I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the presidency of the United States. People who say, 'It can't happen,' are many of the same people who said we'd never elect an African American.

I'm proud that Colorado delivered a victory to Barack Obama in 2008 and we will do so again in 2012.

A common person can never again be President of the United States.

My grandmother from Iowa, she is dancing in Heaven at the prospect that the next president of the United States is going to be Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The 2008 presidential election was a triumph of hope and unity over fear and divisiveness. Barack Obama's election reshapes America's political landscape and wipes away the false geography of 'red states' and 'blue states.'

Barack Obama's journey to the White House has impressed and inspired the entire world.

In fundamental ways, the 2016 Democratic primary has been a litigation of the Obama years, and of whether the president's 2008 campaign vow of 'change we can believe in' succeeded or failed.

There was always this sense, even early on in the campaign, that if the senator Obama could score this upset victory in Iowa, that there was a pretty good chance that he would end up being president of the United States.

The status quo is not working, and I believe that Donald Trump is going to be a phenomenal president.

What a day. It's 53 and gloomy - like President Obama.

Without doubt, President [Barack] Obama is a great historical figure.