Barack Obama: “[a] democracy as resilient as ours must reject the false choice between our security and our ideals.”

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

it was nevertheless important that we all play a part in assuring that our elected officials are accountable.

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

the American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away