Barack Obama: “The Nation simply cannot afford these wasteful subsidies.”

While we are non-partisan, we are not value-neutral. We have a point of view.

I hope this center will serve as an affirmation of just how special, how precious our democracy truly is.

There’s no doubt that we are going through a period right now of disruption, polarization.

Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.