Barack Obama: “I understand the Republicans have a different view.”

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

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.

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

It shows me somebody who’s not focused on the American people and the job they’re supposed to do.