Barack Obama: “I think the process for me of growing up was to recognize that it's not about me.”

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.

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.

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

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