Barack Obama: “I am heartened that so many Senators judged this deal on the merits and am gratified by the strong support of lawmakers…”

there will be no kings"

For almost four decades, Nancy Pelosi served the American people and worked to make our country better.

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 was a little tall for it.