Barack Obama: “It's only the beginning of what we're going to have to do to turn around our economy.”

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.

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

I am very happy to see a ceasefire. And I’m hopeful that it holds.