Barack Obama: “History shows that countries are more prosperous and more peaceful when women are empowered.”

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.

Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.

She knew she was going to mess me up, and she did it anyway.

While we are non-partisan, we are not value-neutral. We have a point of view.