Barack Obama: “Look, first of all, everybody should have complete confidence in the banks.”

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.

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

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

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.