Barack Obama: “OMB Director Shaun Donovan sent letters to the Chair and Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee.”

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

People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.

I was a little tall for it.

At least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people.