Barack Obama: “I refuse to accept that overcrowded, underfunded schools are the best we can do for our kids.”

This idea that any suggestion or criticism that America was anything other than perfect is unpatriotic... is a suggestion that you hate your country.

the American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away

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.

The success of this experiment was never a given.