Barack Obama: “You guys still drink Tang up there? That's, by the way, before the time of you young people.”

That's what I hope every visitor to this center takes away from their experience.

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.

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

The success of this experiment was never a given.