Barack Obama: “We believe that in this country hard work should pay off and everybody should get a fair shot.”

Now the ball’s in your court, Iowa.

The essence of Prop. 50 is to say that if you are going to play that game, then we are going to try to counteract that abuse of the system.

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.

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