Barack Obama: “This is a difficult time for our country, but I am confident that we can meet the challenges we face and leave behind…”

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

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.

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

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.