Barack Obama: “If there is just one thing, one thing that we could do that would save just one child, don't we have an obligation to…”

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

The success of this experiment was never a given.

This idea that any suggestion or criticism that America was anything other than perfect is unpatriotic... is a suggestion that you hate your country.

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