Barack Obama: “Only by fully acknowledging the past can we achieve a future of true and lasting reconciliation.”

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

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.

At least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people.

I am very happy to see a ceasefire. And I’m hopeful that it holds.