Barack Obama: “We are, by choice, friends and partners.”

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

It shows me somebody who’s not focused on the American people and the job they’re supposed to do.

I was a little tall for it.

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.