Barack Obama: “We intend to strengthen these civilian capacities, recruiting our best and brightest to take on this challenge.”

a belief that our military and law enforcement owe allegiance not to any president or political party, but to the people and our constitution … a belief in the peaceful transfer of power

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

I was a little tall for it.

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.