Barack Obama: “As of September 20th, servicemembers will no longer be forced to hide who they are in order to serve our country.”

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

I hope this center will serve as an affirmation of just how special, how precious our democracy truly is.

There’s no doubt that we are going through a period right now of disruption, polarization.

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