Barack Obama: “Many successful public charter schools across the Nation are working to meet these goals.”

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

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

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.