Barack Obama: “It's essential that we diagnose the problems quickly and deal with them immediately.”

This idea that any suggestion or criticism that America was anything other than perfect is unpatriotic... is a suggestion that you hate your country.

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

I obviously have a room in his head.

The success of this experiment was never a given.