Barack Obama: “Today is a great day for us to acknowledge everything they do to provide our liberty and way of life.”

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.

People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.

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

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