Barack Obama: “We are here today for a simple reason: at a time when we face not only a fiscal crisis, but also a host of difficult…”

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.

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.

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