Barack Obama: “We are engaging not because we believe in talking for talking's sake, but because the strategy of refusing to engage…”

I am very happy to see a ceasefire. And I’m hopeful that it holds.

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.

It fortifies you to say that, yes, this has been part of the journey that we’re on.

I was a little tall for it.