Barack Obama: “The administration shares and supports the goals of the bill, ensuring accountability at the VA.”

The success of this experiment was never a given.

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

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.

I think when you understand the complexities of America and the contradictions of America, I don’t think it makes you love it less. I think it makes you love it more.