Barack Obama: “Let me say it as simply as I can. Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.”

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.

No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting legislation passed.

never talks that way when they are in the same room.

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