Barack Obama: “I'm confident that Dennis Blair and Leon Panetta are the right leaders to advance the work of our intelligence…”

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.

I hope this center will serve as an affirmation of just how special, how precious our democracy truly is.

Now the ball’s in your court, Iowa.

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.