Barack Obama: “I'm also hopeful that we might refresh the American people's faith in the capability of their leaders to govern in…”

I think when you understand the complexities of America and the contradictions of America, I don’t think it makes you love it less. I think it makes you love it more.

Helped lead some of the most significant movements for change in human history

Never talks that way when they are in the same room.

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