Barack Obama: “I'm just thrilled to be here.”

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.

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.

She knew she was going to mess me up, and she did it anyway."

never talks that way when they are in the same room.