Barack Obama: “Today's vote in the Council of Representatives is a significant moment in Iraq's history and a major step forward in…”

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.

I obviously have a room in his head.

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.