Barack Obama: “We pledge to give our many wounded warriors, with wounds seen and unseen, the world-class care and treatment they have…”

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.

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

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.

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.