Barack Obama: “It is deficit neutral, it bends the cost curve, it covers 30 million Americans who don't have health insurance.”

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

At least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people.

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

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