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I think if you're president, color goes away completely: you're president and it doesn't matter if you're white, green or purple.

The president of the United States is a pretty important position, and it's the ideas and policies that matter to me, not the color of their skin.

I don't care who the president is - it ain't just all about who's black or who's white or who's Republican or Democrat, it's about who is for the betterment of people, period.

Forget the historic nature of his election having to do with skin color - Obama has an opportunity offered to few presidents: the chance to set the course of the nation for decades, if not generations, to come. Who knows: perhaps in the near future, our grandchildren will spend money with Obama's face on it.

Every American president must be held to the highest standard. No president of any color should be given a free pass for screw-ups, lies or failure to keep a promise.

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

Every president, if you watch what they look like when they come into office, you can see their hair turn white because it's such a hard job.

We do have a black president, and that means a lot. People ask, 'What has he done?' What he's done is change the color up, which you see on the screen. When the head of the free world is black, there's got to be some sort of spin-off from it.

Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color.

I am definitely a person of color.