Barack Obama: “While the public option is important, it's not going to be a deal-breaker.”

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.

There’s no doubt that we are going through a period right now of disruption, polarization.

No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting legislation passed.