Barack Obama: “We have the chance, maybe for the first time in a generation, to finally come together and start tackling problems that…”

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

That's what I hope every visitor to this center takes away from their experience.

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

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