Barack Obama: “The leadership they exert over the next 20 years can change the world.”

a belief that our military and law enforcement owe allegiance not to any president or political party, but to the people and our constitution … a belief in the peaceful transfer of power

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.

The success of this experiment was never a given.

I obviously have a room in his head.