Barack Obama: “We can't afford to go back to the same misguided policies that led us into this mess.”

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

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

the American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away