Barack Obama: “I'm very pleased to welcome my friend and partner, Prime Minister Harper, back to the White House.”

never talks that way when they are in the same room.

Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.

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

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.