Barack Obama: “Iraqi leaders must rise above their differences and come together around a political plan for Iraq's future.”

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.

a belief that our military and law enforcement owe allegiance not to any president or political party, but to the people and our constitution … a belief in the peaceful transfer of power

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.

That was fantastic. I was a little tall for it.