Barack Obama: “And it's one of the single most important steps we can take to help grow middle-class wages.”

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.

The success of this experiment was never a given.

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.

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.