Barack Obama: “The legislation is essential for funding our ongoing military, diplomatic, and intelligence operations.”

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…

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.

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

She knew she was going to mess me up, and she did it anyway.