Barack Obama: “Americans are tired of gridlock. What our country needs right now is a common purpose, a higher purpose.”

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.

It shows me somebody who’s not focused on the American people and the job they’re supposed to do.

No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting legislation passed.

never talks that way when they are in the same room.