Barack Obama: “I'm taking the important step by designating the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as a national monument.”

At least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people.

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.

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.

It fortifies you to say that, yes, this has been part of the journey that we’re on.