Barack Obama: “You're setting the standard for everybody else.”

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

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.

There’s no doubt that we are going through a period right now of disruption, polarization.

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.