Barack Obama: “This agreement seeks to achieve that common effort made in good faith to solve our toughest problems.”

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.

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 was a little tall for it.

It shows me somebody who’s not focused on the American people and the job they’re supposed to do.