Barack Obama: “To solve this crisis and to ease the burden on our states, we need action -- and action now.”

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

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.

We don’t have any folks who grill here?

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…