Barack Obama: “We start this Congress and this administration with a $1.3 trillion budget deficit.”

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.

The success of this experiment was never a given.

the American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away"

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.