Barack Obama: “We will finish what we started, and we will remind the world why America is the greatest nation on Earth.”

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.

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.