Political Quotes

“Mr. President, as President Obama's Presidency draws to a close, talk tends to turn to his legacy. What will President Obama leave behind? Internationally, of course, he will leave behind a growing terrorist threat and an emboldened Iran on its way to becoming a nuclear power. Domestically, the President will leave behind a weak economy, as the recent economic growth numbers for the second quarter made clear. We grew at a little more than 1 percent. If you look at the historical average since World War II, average growth has been 3 percent, 3.5 percent. In fact, President Obama will be the only President in history--at least since they started keeping these sorts of numbers--who will not have had 1 year in his Presidency where the growth rate exceeded 3 percent. Under his Presidency, we have averaged about 1.5 percent, so it is a sluggish, anemic economy that continues to keep wages at lower levels for American workers, the highest number of people who have left the labor force and lowest labor participation rate literally in 40 years. That is the economic legacy of the President. Of course, the President will leave behind his signature law, ObamaCare. Many Democrats would still like to think of ObamaCare as the President's signature domestic achievement, but you can ask anybody to scan any newspaper, and you can see it is well on its way to being a disaster. This is just a small sampling of recent ObamaCare headlines.…”