Barack Obama: “That fills us with the collective responsibility to leave an even bigger and bolder, more generous, more compassionate…”

it was nevertheless important that we all play a part in assuring that our elected officials are accountable.

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…

It fortifies you to say that, yes, this has been part of the journey that we’re on.

At least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people.