Barack Obama: “Americans are united in confronting this danger.”

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’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

That's what I hope every visitor to this center takes away from their experience.

never talks that way when they are in the same room.