Barack Obama: “I certainly do look forward to visiting your beautiful country sometime in the future.”

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

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.

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

It fortifies you to say that, yes, this has been part of the journey that we’re on.