Barack Obama: “When children read their first book, pick up their first instrument, or perform in their first play, they demonstrate…”

the American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away"

It shows me somebody who’s not focused on the American people and the job they’re supposed to do.

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.