Barack Obama: “I believed the Democrats and Republicans, Americans of every political stripe, that they were hungry for new ideas and…”

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.

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

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

At least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people.