Barack Obama: “We could come here a thousand times, and each time our hearts would break.”

a belief that our military and law enforcement owe allegiance not to any president or political party, but to the people and our constitution … a belief in the peaceful transfer of power

never talks that way when they are in the same room.

The essence of Prop. 50 is to say that if you are going to play that game, then we are going to try to counteract that abuse of the system.

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