Barack Obama: “There's not another country on Earth that wouldn't gladly trade places with the United States of America.”

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.

I obviously have a room in his head.

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.

The success of this experiment was never a given.