Barack Obama: “One of the fundamental challenges of our time is building an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does…”

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.

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

The success of this experiment was never a given.

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.