Barack Obama: “there's more we need to do to help the economy recover at a faster rate, put more people back to work.”

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.

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.

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.

I was a little tall for it.