Barack Obama: “That's not freedom. The freedom to languish in illness or to be bankrupt because somebody in your family gets…”

I think when you understand the complexities of America and the contradictions of America, I don’t think it makes you love it less. I think it makes you love it more.

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

She knew she was going to mess me up, and she did it anyway.

The success of this experiment was never a given.