Barack Obama: “I need people to feel a sense of urgency about these congressional races.”

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

The success of this experiment was never a given.

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

People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.