Barack Obama: “America's prosperity has always risen from the bottom-up.”

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

No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting legislation passed.

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.

there will be no kings