Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.

Indeed, it's not a stretch to say that most voters no longer choose their representatives; instead, representatives choose their voters.