Barack Obama: “Phil Schiliro helped shepherd through a series of historic accomplishments on behalf of the American people.”

I think when you understand the complexities of America and the contradictions of America, I don’t think it makes you love it less. I think it makes you love it more.

never talks that way when they are in the same room.

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.

That was fantastic. I was a little tall for it.