Barack Obama: “The Government should stop the indiscriminate shelling that has taken hundreds of innocent lives.”

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.

a belief that our military and law enforcement owe allegiance not to any president or political party, but to the people and our constitution … a belief in the peaceful transfer of power