Barack Obama: “Health care reform is a moral imperative, an economic imperative, and a fiscal imperative for our Nation.”

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

helped lead some of the most significant movements for change in human history

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.

That's what I hope every visitor to this center takes away from their experience.