Barack Obama: “Nobody wants to punish success in America.”

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.

I thought this was the South Side of Chicago.

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

The essence of Prop. 50 is to say that if you are going to play that game, then we are going to try to counteract that abuse of the system.