Barack Obama: “This order establishes a council to better coordinate Federal programs and maximize the impact of Federal investment to…”

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

I was a little tall for it.

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.

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