“Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.”

– President Obama announcing the killing
of bin Laden at the White House, May 1, 2011

“We do not have time for this kind of silliness.”

– Barack Obama in a press conference at the White House
about the release of his long-form birth certificate, April 27, 2011

“The President does not have power under the Constitution to
unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not
involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.”

– President Obama in an interview with
the Boston Globe, December 20, 2007

“It’s unlikely that as a consequence of me shaking hands or
having a polite conversation with Mr. Chavez that we are
endangering the strategic interests of the United States.”

– Barack Obama speaking to reporters in Port of Spain,
Trinidad and Tobago, about his meeting with Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez, April 19, 2009 (1:42 into video)

“I bowled a 129….it was like Special Olympics, or something.”

– Barack Obama on the Tonight Show, March 19, 2009