Barack Obama: “There's a sense that this disaster is not only threatening our fishermen and our shrimpers and our oystermen.”

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

This idea that any suggestion or criticism that America was anything other than perfect is unpatriotic... is a suggestion that you hate your country.

That was fantastic. I was a little tall for it.

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.