Barack Obama: “America's small businesses are key drivers of job creation.”

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.

While we are non-partisan, we are not value-neutral. We have a point of view.

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.

I thought this was the South Side of Chicago.