Barack Obama: “We've cleared away the rubble from the financial crisis.”

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.

Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.

I thought this was the South Side of Chicago.

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.