Barack Obama: “Today we have shown real progress in cutting waste, fraud and abuse, but we still need Congress to act on the…”

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.

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

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

That was fantastic. I was a little tall for it.