Barack Obama: “We can't afford to talk past one another, to focus only on our differences, or to let the walls of mistrust go up around…”

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

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

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.

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