Democracy Is Not Meant To Be Efficient,

I Said I Didn't Want To Run For President. I Didn't Ask You To Believe Me.

You Campaign In Poetry. You Govern In Prose.

We Work Harder And We Earn Less. Income Inequality Is At The Highest Point In Over A Century. While American Capitalism Never Guaranteed Success, It Did Guarantee Opportunity, For Too Many, The Dream Of Economic Mobility Has Been Replaced With A Nightmare Of Economic Stagnation.

We Are Disgusted By The Things That We Desire, And We Desire What Disgusts Us.

A Shining City Is Perhaps All The President Sees From The Portico Of The White House And The Veranda Of His Ranch, Where Everyone Seems To Be Doing Well. But There's Another Part To The Shining City. In This Part Of The City There Are More Poor Than Ever, More Families In Trouble, More And More People Who Need Help But Can't Find It.