Barack Obama: “Part of the reason that I love meeting with students is because so much of what we do together is focused on your…”

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.

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

The success of this experiment was never a given.