Barack Obama: “We recognize we have to confront the economic grievances that exist in some of the areas that ISIL seeks to exploit.”

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.

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.

We don’t have any folks who grill here?

I hope this center will serve as an affirmation of just how special, how precious our democracy truly is.