Barack Obama: “The idea was, here in America, you could make it if you try.”

Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.

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