Barack Obama: “what I really want right now is to — to get a debt-ceiling deal for my birthday”

The success of this experiment was never a given.

The essence of Prop. 50 is to say that if you are going to play that game, then we are going to try to counteract that abuse of the system.

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.

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.