Barack Obama: “History shows that countries that protect these rights are ultimately more stable, secure, and successful.”

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.

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.

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

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.