Barack Obama: “It's a simple idea: We need to live within our means while at the same time investing in our future.”

The success of this experiment was never a given.

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

It fortifies you to say that, yes, this has been part of the journey that we’re on.

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