Barack Obama: “Latinos have done so much and come so far is a testament to the vision that has sustained you.”

Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.

never talks that way when they are in the same room.

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