Barack Obama: “We are here today not simply to pay tribute to those patriots who founded our nation in Philadelphia or defended it in…”

I hope this center will serve as an affirmation of just how special, how precious our democracy truly is.

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

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.

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.