Barack Obama: “Now all parties have a responsibility to ensure that this historic moment of promise becomes a moment of lasting…”

America is currently experiencing anger and vision but we are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect."

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

I think when you understand the complexities of America and the contradictions of America, I don’t think it makes you love it less. I think it makes you love it more.

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.