Barack Obama: “We've seen where that leads us, and we're not going back.”

There’s no doubt that we are going through a period right now of disruption, polarization.

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

This idea that any suggestion or criticism that America was anything other than perfect is unpatriotic... is a suggestion that you hate your country.

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.