Barack Obama: “Let us continue protecting Medicare and Medicaid so older Americans can age with dignity, and so all Americans can live…”

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

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.

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.

I hope this center will serve as an affirmation of just how special, how precious our democracy truly is.