Barack Obama: “We have listened, and like you, we are focused on pursuing concrete actions that will make a difference over time.”

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

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

It shows me somebody who’s not focused on the American people and the job they’re supposed to do.

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.