Barack Obama: “Our problems are imminently solvable, and we know what we have to do to solve them.”

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.

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

While we are non-partisan, we are not value-neutral. We have a point of view.

I was a little tall for it.