Barack Obama: “The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster that can seriously…”

This idea that any suggestion or criticism that America was anything other than perfect is unpatriotic... is a suggestion that you hate your country.

People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.

Now the ball’s in your court, Iowa.

I am very happy to see a ceasefire. And I’m hopeful that it holds.