Barack Obama: “Each time progress has come slowly and even painfully, but progress has always come -- because we’ve worked at it and…”

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

I was a little tall for it.

People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.

It's a way to honor her trailblazing leadership, and inspire visitors to follow in her footsteps.