Barack Obama: “It is my fervent hope that we can harness some of that unity and some of that pride to confront the many challenges that…”

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

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.

We don’t have any folks who grill here?

a belief that our military and law enforcement owe allegiance not to any president or political party, but to the people and our constitution … a belief in the peaceful transfer of power