Barack Obama Quotes

With universal suffrage, every chief executive candidate must face the seven million people of Hong Kong, explain his or her political platform and mission, and win over the people by addressing their interests and concerns.

I'm not responding to any of the personal attacks that come from Donald Trump, because he can say whatever he wants about me, and I have more votes than he does as we sit here today. More Americans have voted for me.

They're saying Arnold will get 95% of the vote. At least according to his brother, Jeb Schwarzenegger.

It's hard running for office when people can't say your name.

The president in Finland has to understand that there are many different thoughts and opinions and that they must be taken into account so that he could be the president of the whole nation.

We should remember the campaign advertising will be only a smaller portion of the President's total exposure.

There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion. One, is your convention speech; two, are the base; three, is the selection of your vice president.

Of course we are looking to win support across every section of society. We win support by speaking to voters on the issues they most care about.

It wouldn't do me much good to back somebody that won in Iowa if they can't carry on the campaign elsewhere.

I'm low in the polls because nobody's ever heard of me.

An election is like a horse-race, in that you can tell more about it the next day.

It would be premature to ask your support in the next election, and it would be inaccurate to thank you for it in the past.

When you run a campaign the idea is not to appeal to pundits but to appeal to people.

You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day.

Donald Trump can ultimately make the case for himself.

I am the people's politician. If the day should ever come when the people can't save me, I'll know I'm finished.

I'm very confident about my ability to earn votes in every neighborhood.

I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.

In all honesty, Hilary Clinton can't fill a Starbucks even if they offered free ventis.

We're running in a primary election. What do you do? You go out and seek support. When you're getting support, that's good. When you're not getting support, that's bad.

I am interested in garnering the white vote, and the black vote, and the Latin vote, and the Asian vote, and the business vote, and the labor vote.

California has gone insane. According to the latest poll, Arnold Schwarzenegger is leading in California's governor's race by 34 points. You can tell that Governor Gray Davis is worried because he spent all day yesterday working on his pecs.

Hillary Clinton is campaigning in Iowa, virtually going door to door to every home in Iowa. Jehovah's Witnesses finally got fed up and said, 'Get lost. Get out of here!'

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

The polls show that 10 percent of the public are ready to vote for me even though they don't know I'm running. We hope that figure won't drop when they learn I'm in the race.