Barack Obama: “We are going to take the bowling alley out of the White House. We are going to be putting in a basketball court.”

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

It fortifies you to say that, yes, this has been part of the journey that we’re on.

While we are non-partisan, we are not value-neutral. We have a point of view.

The success of this experiment was never a given.