Barack Obama: “…no country will reach its potential unless it draws on the talents of our wives and our mothers, and our sisters and…”

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

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.

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

It shows me somebody who’s not focused on the American people and the job they’re supposed to do.