Barack Obama: “The mission will end in 2014.”

I think when you understand the complexities of America and the contradictions of America, I don’t think it makes you love it less. I think it makes you love it more.

The success of this experiment was never a given.

She knew she was going to mess me up, and she did it anyway.

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.