Barack Obama: “We were very focused on ensuring that a final agreement lived up to the parameters that were established.”

At least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people.

never talks that way when they are in the same room.

There’s no doubt that we are going through a period right now of disruption, polarization.

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.