Barack Obama: “Farmers, such as Senator Lugar, and ranchers in the U.S. and around the world need to know that they can be a part of…”

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

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.

For almost four decades, Nancy Pelosi served the American people and worked to make our country better.

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.