Barack Obama: “I hope we can come together in a bipartisan manner to get it done.”

For almost four decades, Nancy Pelosi served the American people and worked to make our country better.

A belief that our military and law enforcement owe allegiance not to any president or political party, but to the people and our constitution … a belief in the peaceful transfer of power

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.

The success of this experiment was never a given.