Bonus Quote of the Day

“So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse, can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insult, in phony controversies and manufactured outrage. It’s a politics that pretends to be brave, but in fact is born of fear. John called us to be bigger than that. He called us to be better than that.”

— Former President Barack Obama, quoted by the New York Times, at Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) memorial service.