Barack Obama: “The important point is we're getting started in this process.”

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

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.

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.

I was a little tall for it.