Barack Obama: “I am confident that they will be assets in my administration as we work to bring about real change in our country.”

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.

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

While we are non-partisan, we are not value-neutral. We have a point of view.