Barack Obama: “There's no one who I believe has ever captured the soul of America more profoundly than Abraham Lincoln has.”

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.

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.

I obviously have a room in his head.

I thought this was the South Side of Chicago.