Barack Obama: “we resolved to shape a world where events like those of September 11, 2001, could never happen again”

People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.

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

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

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