Barack Obama: “I hereby proclaim May 2 through May 8, 2010, as National Charter Schools Week.”

the American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away"

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 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.

The essence of Prop. 50 is to say that if you are going to play that game, then we are going to try to counteract that abuse of the system.