Barack Obama: “Any solution to avoid default must be bipartisan.”

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

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

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.

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