Barack Obama: “When the child next door is maltreated, we all suffer.”

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 think when you understand the complexities of America and the contradictions of America, I don’t think it makes you love it less. I think it makes you love it more.

the American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away"

The success of this experiment was never a given.