Barack Obama: “America's reputation suffers when we are perceived as idle in the face of mass atrocities and genocide.”

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.

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…

I was a little tall for it.

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