Barack Obama: “This order is effective at 1:00 p.m. eastern daylight time on May 18, 2011.”

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

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 am very happy to see a ceasefire. And I’m hopeful that it holds.

the American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away"