Barack Obama: “When your country needed you most, you stepped forward.”

a belief that our military and law enforcement owe allegiance not to any president or political party, but to the people and our constitution … a belief in the peaceful transfer of power

I am very happy to see a ceasefire. And I’m hopeful that it holds.

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.

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.