Barack Obama: “America is still home to the most creative and most innovative businesses in the world.”

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

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.

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

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.