Barack Obama: “ongoing efforts to support peace in the Middle East”

it was nevertheless important that we all play a part in assuring that our elected officials are accountable.

I am very happy to see a ceasefire. And I’m hopeful that it holds.

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.

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