Barack Obama: “When the American people are reminded of that, I don't fear $10 million checks.”

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

there will be no kings"

never talks that way when they are in the same room.

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