Barack Obama: “This country has come too far, and people of good will in both political parties are too plentiful to turn back now.”

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

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

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.