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.

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

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

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