Barack Obama: “President Reagan understood that while there are often strong disagreements between parties and political adversaries…”

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.

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 am very happy to see a ceasefire. And I’m hopeful that it holds.

The success of this experiment was never a given.