Barack Obama

Obama holds health care summit

The question I'm going to ask myself and I ask of all of you, is there enough serious effort that in a month's time or a few week's time or six weeks' time, we could actually resolve something. And if we can't, we've got to go ahead and make some decisions.

— Remarks made by President Barack Obama at a White House summit on Thursday (Feb. 25, 2010) aimed at trying to reach a bipartisan agreement to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system.

Representatives speak out at the health care summit

I even have one constituent -- you will not believe this, and I know you won't, but it's true -- her sister died. This poor woman had no dentures. She wore her dead sister's teeth, which of course were uncomfortable and did not fit.

— Remarks made by Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY.) at a White House summit (Feb. 25, 2010) aimed at trying to reach a bipartisan agreement to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system.

Gingrich is not a fan of Obama's ideas

By any standard of government control of the economy, he is a socialist. That doesn’t mean he is evil. He just has dumb ideas.

— Former U.S. speaker of the house Newt Gingrich in Atlanta at the Georgia Republican Party’s President’s Day Dinner held Feb. 24, 1010.

Dick Cheney says Obama will be a one term president

In the year that President Obama has been in office we have learned a lot, haven't we? We've learned he is not going to govern from the center, we've learned he doesn't believe in American exceptionalism, and he is going to travel the world apologizing for this great nation.

— Former Vice President Dick Cheney Thursday (2/18/2010) at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. He proclaimed that “Barack Obama is a one term president.”

Dick Cheney comments on the trials of terrorists

These are tough questions, no doubt about it. You want my opinion, my view of what ought to happen, I think we have to treat it as a -- as a war. This is a strategic threat to the United States. I think that's why we were successful for seven-and-a-half years in avoiding a further major attack against the United States.

— Former Vice President Dick Cheney criticizes President Obama for wanting to try terrorists in civilian court, rather than before military commissions. Sunday 2/14/10 “This Week” on ABC

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