Barack Obama: “Over the last 5½ years, we've made enormous progress on a whole range of issues.”

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.

People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.

I obviously have a room in his head.

She knew she was going to mess me up, and she did it anyway.