Barack Obama: “This important step shows what we can do when we come together across party lines to take up a just cause.”

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

the American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away

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.

helped lead some of the most significant movements for change in human history