Barack Obama: “I share our Nation's admiration for Captain Phillips's courage and leadership and selfless concern for his crew.”

Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.

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

The essence of Prop. 50 is to say that if you are going to play that game, then we are going to try to counteract that abuse of the system.

At least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people.