Barack Obama: “We do not leave anybody wearing the American uniform behind.”

There’s no doubt that we are going through a period right now of disruption, polarization.

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.

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.

the American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away"