Barack Obama: “I believe that we can steer ourselves out of this crisis because I believe in this country.”

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.

The success of this experiment was never a given.

helped lead some of the most significant movements for change in human history

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