Barack Obama: “Congress needs to step up and guarantee that 98 percent of Americans and 97 percent of small-business owners won't see…”

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

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 hope this center will serve as an affirmation of just how special, how precious our democracy truly is.

I obviously have a room in his head.