Mark Takano: “I just want to get a straight answer about your authority.”

“Progress is not permanent. Rights do not protect themselves. Democracy does not defend itself.”

We are here because the work that began 63 years ago is unfinished.

Every generation must take up the work of renewing and perfecting the idea of America so that America lives up to its promise.

America does not belong to one political party. America does not belong to a bloodline. And it certainly doesn’t belong to one man.