Barack Obama: “While I pledged to slash earmarks by more than half when I'm President of the United States of America.”

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.

helped lead some of the most significant movements for change in human history

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

I think when you understand the complexities of America and the contradictions of America, I don’t think it makes you love it less. I think it makes you love it more.