Barack Obama: “I'm not going to turn my back on the American people who sent me here.”

People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.

It was nevertheless important that we all play a part in assuring that our elected officials are accountable.

It shows me somebody who’s not focused on the American people and the job they’re supposed to do.

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