Barack Obama: “I want to welcome Prime Minister Thorning-Schmidt to the White House and to the Oval Office.”

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…

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

never talks that way when they are in the same room.

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