Barack Obama: “Don't ever bet against the American people, don't bet against the American worker, because we don't take the easy way…”

helped lead some of the most significant movements for change in human history

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

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

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.