I’ve called Chicago home for nearly 25 years. It’s a city of broad shoulders and big hearts and bold dreams; a city of legendary sports figures, legendary sports venues, and legendary sports fans; a city like America itself, where the world — the world’s races and religions and nationalities come together and reach for the dream that brought them here.

BARACK OBAMA, remarks on the South Lawn, Sep. 16, 2009

“A dream of raw, naked, political power unfettered by laws or conscience.”