Barack Obama: “If we do not make the attempt, then failure is guaranteed.”

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.

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.

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

That was fantastic. I was a little tall for it.