Barack Obama: “We will engage as partners as the Libyan people work to build open and transparent institutions.”

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

America is currently experiencing anger and vision but we are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect.

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.

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