Barack Obama: “Without the presence and participation of women and girls in our classrooms, workplaces, and communities, our Nation can…”

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

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.

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.