Barack Obama: “I am that much more determined to make sure that over the next 5 years we complete the task that we set out.”

The success of this experiment was never a given.

I hope this center will serve as an affirmation of just how special, how precious our democracy truly is.

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

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.