Barack Obama: “We urge the immediate release of Mr. Gross so that he can return home to his wife and family.”

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

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.

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.

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.