Barack Obama: “Thanks in advance for the extraordinary work that you're going to do over the next 18 months to make sure that we can…”

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.

I am very happy to see a ceasefire. And I’m hopeful that it holds.

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.