Barack Obama: “I am more determined now than I was in 2008.”

We don’t have any folks who grill here?

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.

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

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.