Barack Obama: “You did not elect me to just try to do what was politically expedient at the moment.”

I am very happy to see a ceasefire. And I’m hopeful that it holds.

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.

America is currently experiencing anger and vision but we are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect.

At least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people.