Robert Gibbs
Robert Gibbs
Robert Lane Gibbsis the Executive Vice President and Global Chief Communications officer of McDonalds, Inc. As the Executive Vice President, Gibbs is the chief of McDonalds public relations efforts. Before McDonalds, Gibbs was an American political advisor and commentator who served as the 28th White House Press Secretary during the first term of Barack Obama's presidency. Gibbs had worked with Obama since 2004 and previously served as the communications director for then-Senator Obama and his campaign during the 2008 presidential...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth29 March 1971
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I think people are going to have a choice to make in the fall. But I think there's no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to gain control. There's no doubt about that.
So we should all, me included, stop fighting each other and arguing about our differences on certain policies.
Investing in auto companies and ensuring a financial collapse didn't lead not from a recession to a great depression may not have been the most popular thing to do, but it was the right thing to do.
We're just going to go straight beer. No sense in diluting it.
We do not sponsor any form of terrorism anywhere in the world. Never have, never will
There's no safer investment in the world than in the United States.
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.
It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid
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...?
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.
I hear these people saying [Barack Obama]'s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested. I mean, it's crazy.
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.
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.