Barack Obama: “A good teacher can increase the lifetime income of a classroom by more than a quarter million dollars.”

I hope this center will serve as an affirmation of just how special, how precious our democracy truly is.

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 thought this was the South Side of Chicago.

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