Barack Obama: “We have a sacred obligation to serve you as well as you've served us.”

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.

For almost four decades, Nancy Pelosi served the American people and worked to make our country better.

The success of this experiment was never a given.