Barack Obama: “What we cannot do is use this tragedy as one more occasion to turn on each other.”

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.

It shows me somebody who’s not focused on the American people and the job they’re supposed to do.

America is currently experiencing anger and vision but we are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect."

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.