Barack Obama: “Today we'll decide the next phase of the transition, the next milestone.”

There’s no doubt that we are going through a period right now of disruption, polarization.

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.

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

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