Barack Obama: “Good policy is good politics.”

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

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

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.

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