Barack Obama: “Thomas Edward Perez, of Maryland, to be Secretary of Labor, vice Hilda L. Solis, resigned.”

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

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.

She knew she was going to mess me up, and she did it anyway.

Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.