Barack Obama: “I want to offer my condolences to all the families trying to make sense of this difficult situation.”

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

It fortifies you to say that, yes, this has been part of the journey that we’re on.

I obviously have a room in his head.

The success of this experiment was never a given.