Barack Obama: “It's not a few of us doing well and then the rest of us hoping that we get lucky, but rather, everybody as a team moving…”

I obviously have a room in his head.

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

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

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.