Barack Obama: “This proposal is fully paid for, in part by closing tax loopholes that encourage corporations to ship American jobs…”

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.

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.

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.

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