Barack Obama: “This is good news, just in time for the holidays.”

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

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

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

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.