Barack Obama: “No one in America should be fired because they're gay.”

I think when you understand the complexities of America and the contradictions of America, I don’t think it makes you love it less. I think it makes you love it more.

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

There’s no doubt that we are going through a period right now of disruption, polarization.

At least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people.