1.
I am happy with what I do. I'd love to be the manager of the Atlanta Braves, but they hired somebody this week. So I'll just have to be inordinately happy with one of the best jobs on the planet.
Robert Gibbs
2.
I think the minimum wage will be the centerpiece of the State of Union. I think it should be the centerpiece of the State of the Union. And it should be very focused on that because, as you said, Republicans in the rest of the country are for it.
Robert Gibbs
3.
It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with.
Robert Gibbs
4.
We're just going to go straight beer. No sense in diluting it.
Robert Gibbs
5.
I hear these people saying [Barack Obama]'s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested. I mean, it's crazy.
Robert Gibbs
6.
It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid
Robert Gibbs
7.
Who but a physicist, in the research lab or the corporation, could mix and match multiple ideas, models, technologies from different disciplines and thrive on change and new ideas...?
Robert Gibbs
8.
I think the president's quite comfortable being the underdog. I think he's happy to run this race from - as if he were behind the whole time.
Robert Gibbs
9.
I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent teacher layoffs a bailout - but I know thats not a view held by many, nor were the views I was frustrated about.
Robert Gibbs
10.
There's no safer investment in the world than in the United States.
Robert Gibbs
11.
We do not sponsor any form of terrorism anywhere in the world. Never have, never will
Robert Gibbs