Barack Obama: “I want to make sure that small businesses, medium-sized businesses, women-owned businesses, have opportunity.”

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.

I hope this center will serve as an affirmation of just how special, how precious our democracy truly is.

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.

I was a little tall for it.