Barack Obama: “I carry with me every moment of every day, the responsibility to protect the safety and security of the American people.”

At least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people.

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.

That was fantastic. I was a little tall for it.

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.