Barack Obama: “The problem with congressional measures is that you cannot turn them on and off as you like.”

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.

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

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.

Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.