Barack Obama: “Waterboarding violates our ideals and our values.”

The success of this experiment was never a given.

I was a little tall for it.

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.

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.