Barack Obama: “He wanted to make sure that he was having a real exchange with the American people about issues that are important to…”

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

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.

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.

The essence of Prop. 50 is to say that if you are going to play that game, then we are going to try to counteract that abuse of the system.