Barack Obama: “Thanks to their efforts, we're closer than we've ever been to solving this decades-old problem.”

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

That was fantastic. I was a little tall for it.

the American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away

I think when you understand the complexities of America and the contradictions of America, I don’t think it makes you love it less. I think it makes you love it more.