Barack Obama: “Understand, if we want to meet the challenges of this moment, we need to get beyond the old ideological debates and…”

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

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.

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

Now the ball’s in your court, Iowa.