Barack Obama: “For those who doubted our capacity to carry out this operation, I want to be clear. The United States of America has…”

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 shows me somebody who’s not focused on the American people and the job they’re supposed to do.

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.

the American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away