Barack Obama: “You're not supposed to be sycophants. You're supposed to be skeptics, supposed to ask me tough questions.”

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.

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

It fortifies you to say that, yes, this has been part of the journey that we’re on.

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.