Barack Obama: “Significantly improving the educational outcomes of African Americans will provide substantial benefits for our country.”

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

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

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.

I was a little tall for it.