Barack Obama: “America is built from the middle out.”

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.

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.

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.