Barack Obama: “There are a whole range of ideas that if you strip away the politics, there's actually a pretty broad consensus in this…”

People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.

never talks that way when they are in the same room.

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.

While we are non-partisan, we are not value-neutral. We have a point of view.