Barack Obama: “Today, the terrorist threat is more diffuse, from Al Qaida affiliates and other extremists.”

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we 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.

For almost four decades, Nancy Pelosi served the American people and worked to make our country better.