Barack Obama: “Putting teachers back to work is not only good for employment, but it's also good for training our young people.”

That's what I hope every visitor to this center takes away from their experience.

People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.

While we are non-partisan, we are not value-neutral. We have a point of view.

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.