Barack Obama: “You deserve better than you've been getting out of Washington over the last 2½ months, for that matter, for the last 2½…”

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

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…

there will be no kings

The success of this experiment was never a given.