Barack Obama: “For too long, we have ceded the playing field to Hugo Chavez--a democratically elected leader who does not govern…”

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.

I hope this center will serve as an affirmation of just how special, how precious our democracy truly is.

Now the ball’s in your court, Iowa.

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.