“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.
