Anthony Weiner Quotes

I'm overall a big fan of President Obama.

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

At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

When I embarked in the government, it was with a determination to intermeddle not at all with the legislature.

From time to time we must remind ourselves that the President has a role in the legislative process.

The challenge has been, we make policy in the world of politics.

I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

The level of analysis that is done when you see laws created, whether it's the city or state or federal level - it's much more horse-trading than analysis.

I'm a big supporter of President Obama.

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.

If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.

Obama considers himself above deal-making and back-slapping, political necessities he often delegates to Vice President Joe Biden and other lesser sorts.

Presidents are evaluated not by what they did by the stroke of their own pen; it's what they persuade Congress to do.

Washington's a mess, but that's not stopping me from getting bills to help Montana signed into law by President Trump.

I am Congress; I'm president.

When you succeed (with legislation), that feeling is exhilaration. And it takes leadership from a president, which means you meet with members of Congress 24/7 and you talk and you listen.

For even the most seasoned observers of American politics, Barack Obama is a phenomenon.

In college, I studied political science, policy, and law. My plan was to move to New York, pay off student debt in a year or two, and then run for office.

I'm looking forward to going to Congress to pursue my Working Families Agenda and find areas of bipartisan agreement to move forward on important legislation.

Starting in 2005, my first session in the legislature, my colleagues elected me to be Democratic whip.

I believe in President Obama.

Here's what I have to say: Obama is a disaster, and Washington politicians are worthless.

The Senate is where the issues are, and most people there are career politicians.

I think Obama is going to go down as one of our greatest presidents because what this guy has done and has tried to do, and over the kind of opposition that I don't know if Lincoln had, except he had to go to war. This speaks so brilliantly of Obama and the way he conducts himself. I think he is already one of our greatest presidents.

Obama spent the first two years of his administration practicing political unilateral disarmament.