Barack Obama: “We welcome the leadership of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.”

there will be no kings

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.

the American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away

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