Barack Obama: “What I haven't been willing to negotiate, and I will not negotiate, is on the debt ceiling.”

No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting legislation passed.

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

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

The success of this experiment was never a given.