Barack Obama: “nations that protect universal rights are ultimately more stable, successful and secure.”

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.

The success of this experiment was never a given.

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

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