Barack Obama: “I offer my best wishes to President Peres, Prime Minister Netanyahu, and the people of Israel as they celebrate their…”

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

It fortifies you to say that, yes, this has been part of the journey that we’re on.

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.

There’s no doubt that we are going through a period right now of disruption, polarization.