Barack Obama: “Right now the bipartisan compromise that was reached on Saturday is the only viable way to prevent a tax hike on January…”

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

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

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.