Barack Obama: “In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we recognize the inherent dignity and rights of every individual.”

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.

Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.

I was a little tall for it.

The essence of Prop. 50 is to say that if you are going to play that game, then we are going to try to counteract that abuse of the system.