Barack Obama: “I commend President Goodluck Jonathan and President-elect Muhammadu Buhari for their public commitments to nonviolence…”

I am very happy to see a ceasefire. And I’m hopeful that it holds.

That was fantastic. I was a little tall for it.

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.

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.