Barack Obama: “Stopping this oil spill and containing its damage must be the top priority of my Administration.”

That's what I hope every visitor to this center takes away from their experience.

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

never talks that way when they are in the same room.

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.