Barack Obama: “I think that my presence here can help do that.”

This idea that any suggestion or criticism that America was anything other than perfect is unpatriotic... is a suggestion that you hate your country.

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.

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

the American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away