Barack Obama: “The United States has been the world's most successful economy precisely because of a long-standing respect for legal…”

People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.

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.

There’s no doubt that we are going through a period right now of disruption, polarization.

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