“One thing that I want to underscore here that I think is really important is this is the president. The executive himself reining in his own power. It’s not coming from Congress. It’s not coming from the judiciary. And that is remarkable and incredibly unusual.”

“All of these things we’ve said about what the president could do, should do, might have, could have, but the central thing to keep in mind is his opponents – you talk about taking them out to dinner, making nice with them – these people politically want to cut his heart out and throw his liver to the dogs. That does make it very, very difficult to come on nice to them.”

“I don’t know what kind of a nigger wouldn’t vote with a black man running,” said Lowery. “All that [Obama] did with the stimulus was genius. Nobody intelligent would risk this country with Romney.”

“Obama has just been subject to the Fox News treatment of ‘angry black man’ again. Lest we forget this, lest we pretend that that doesn’t make a difference to the specter hanging over his neck that ‘I can’t come off as too vigorous, because then it looks like I’m being an angry black man.’

And because of the angry black man phenomenon, Mitt Romney is able to be a vigorously engaged man who’s able to play to his strength.”

“That first campaign I ran, the last campaign I ran in 2008 — I’ve been outspent before.  I’ve had a lot of money thrown at me before.”

“I suspect that most people in Cincinnati would acknowledge that I’ve tried real hard, and we haven’t gotten the Republicans to engage on a whole range of issues that, I wish had happened.”

“Where this ‘Obamacare’ [nickname] came from and this constitutional argument came from, I think was not borne out of a concern about whether or not people had health care, but because a decision was made to attack whatever this president does.”

“Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there – they oppose him not for his polices and political view but for who he is, an African American!”