Barack Obama: “I am transmitting the District of Columbia's 2012 Budget Request Act.”

There’s no doubt that we are going through a period right now of disruption, polarization.

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…

We don’t have any folks who grill here?

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.