Barack Obama: “we cannot . . . must not . . . and will not let our auto industry simply vanish.”

There’s no doubt that we are going through a period right now of disruption, polarization.

At least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people.

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.

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