John Sununu Quotes

Since the issues surrounding President Obama's birth certificate began during his campaign in 2008, I have rejected the notion that he is anything other than American.

If Barack Obama weren't a U.S. citizen, I'm sure Bill and Hillary Clinton would have figured that out by now.

When Obama was first proposed as a presidential candidate in 2007, the nation failed to have a meaningful debate concerning the serious constitutional issue of electing someone whose father was not a U.S. citizen.

I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don't know that. But I do know this: that in his heart, he's not an American. He's just not an American.

I absolutely believe that President Obama was born in the United States. I don't buy into the claims that he wasn't.

Barack Obama could solve this problem and get the birthers to back off... by showing his long form birth certificate.

I think that the, Ted Cruz is not even a natural-born citizen, argument will resonate for at least the next few weeks.

Mr. [Donald] Trump, for five years, you perpetuated a false claim that the nation's first black president was not a natural-born citizen. You questioned his legitimacy. In the last couple of weeks, you acknowledged what most Americans have accepted for years: The president was born in the United States.

Donald Trump and I both accept that Barack Obama was born in the United States of America.

I'm no birther, don't get me wrong.

In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.

Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.

I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want to be in the same city - forget the same stage - with President Obama.

Obama does not like the issue of where he was born.

Ted Cruz is the Schroedinger's cat of politicians. He is both eligible and not eligible to be president.

The Republican Party was threatening to close down the government and hassling President Obama about his birth certificate when he is trying to get Osama bin Laden.

[Some Americans] choose simply to deny that a black President actually exists. One in four Americans (and more than half of all Republicans) believe Obama was not born in this country, and thus is an illegitimate president. More than a dozen state legislatures have introduced “birther bills” demanding proof of Obama’s citizenship as a condition for putting him on the 2012 ballot. 18 percent of Republicans believe Obama to be a Muslim. The goal of all this is to delegitimize Obama’s Presidency. If Obama is not truly American, then America has still never had a Black President.

There's nothing in the 14th Amendment that says if you are born to a mother who is a citizen that you're automatically a citizen. It isn't there. Even some of our presidential candidates think that it is.

Everybody knows that if you're born in America, you are a citizen. No, you're not.

In the United States, anybody can be President. That's the problem.

My support is particularly Bernie Sanders supporters but that's drawn many [Donald] Trump supporters to start with.

I understand that that's the theory of the case for [Donald] Trump supporters and it's what Donald Trump says, and it's possible that that is actually the case.

He [Donald Trump] is the one who got him [Barack Obama] to finally produce the birth certificate. Hillary Clinton's campaign first raised this issue. He picked this up from Hillary Clinton.

I will avoid demonizing people who don't agree with me about this election.

Donald Trump has defined himself very well, not only in the primary election where he was absolutely disrespectful to his colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle and for [Carly] Fiorina who he basically said who would vote for you? Look at her face. She evidently wants to be a Republican leadership, a part of the Republican Party so bad that she would allow them and him to get away with that.