Barack Obama: “You guys are setting a great example for all your friends in school and in the neighborhoods.”

For almost four decades, Nancy Pelosi served the American people and worked to make our country better.

The success of this experiment was never a given.

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.

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.