Barack Obama Quotes

People want to say something negative before they say something good.

Perhaps, Mr. President, it is because you are not a very likable man.

I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.

It's sort of fun. If someone's eyeballing you, it makes you feel good.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

I didn't think [Canadian Prime Minister John] Diefenbaker was a son of a bitch. I thought he was a prick.

This man Bush is just about as mean as he can be.

People who write letters to the editor are idiots.

They are a passel of egg-sucking dogs.

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

I think the biggest backhanded criticism-compliment I get is that I'm 'good at communicating.' Which implies that you're bad at doing.

If somebody comes up and says something good about you, that is never taken as an adhesive thing like something negative about you.

It's a great compliment when the beautiful ones laugh.

I don't care much for Hillary Clinton.

I never receive backlash for my comments. I receive praise.

People like me as a host.

It's nice to get compliments from both girls and guys.

I've noticed that a lot of people who criticize me are from the U.K. - both in the press and on social media. Since I've been here, I've gotten a lot of stares on the street, but in the States, people always come up to me and say, 'I love your hair' or 'I love your dress, you're so cute.' Here, people just look at me like I'm a crazy person.

Players like people saying good things about them and, of course, no one is ever wrong when they do that, but they always are when they say bad stuff.

Really. Is there anything nice to be said about other people's vacations?

But if that was really true, why in the name of all that is holy would anyone have ever liked Nikki in the first place? I was becoming more and more convinced she was a cross between Heidi Montag and Hitler.

you're smart, pretty, and you aren't a douche purse.

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.