Barack Obama actually said...

Well, you know, my sense is, is that, sooner or later, it was going to come up. I wish it could have come up in a calmer way. I think it, ne...

if I was just running the textbook campaign, doing the conventional thing, I probably wasn't going to win, because Senator Clinton was going...

I think it obviously had an impact. People are talking. And that was one of my main objectives, was to try to lay bare some of the tensions ...

the essence of my patriotism, the belief that America is constantly changing and constantly improving, and we will never be perfect, but we ...