Barack Obama: “The United States honors the role of a free press in creating sustainable democracies and prosperous societies.”

it was nevertheless important that we all play a part in assuring that our elected officials are accountable.

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

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.

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