Barack Obama: “When we tend to the sick, when we console those in pain, when we sacrifice for those in need, wherever and whenever we…”

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.

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

I am very happy to see a ceasefire. And I’m hopeful that it holds.

never talks that way when they are in the same room.