Barack Obama: “Leaders from across the political spectrum, including Secretaries of State and Defense from Republican and Democratic…”

While we are non-partisan, we are not value-neutral. We have a point of view.

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

People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.