Barack Obama: “Our job as Americans is to restore that basic bargain that says if you work hard, if you're willing to meet your…”

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.

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.

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

It fortifies you to say that, yes, this has been part of the journey that we’re on.