Barack Obama: “You didn't elect me just to read the polls and figure out how to keep myself in office.”

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

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.

That was fantastic. I was a little tall for it.

The success of this experiment was never a given.