Barack Obama says “we all have a piece of each other” and that Americans have to get past their differences in order to move ahead. He says his “mixed-up background” shows that “everyone is in this together.”

Sound Bite: “When you get my family together, I mean, you’ve got people who look like Margaret Thatcher. You’ve got people who look like Bernie Mac . . . My sister, she looks like Selma Hayek.”