Barack Obama: “Raj has embodied America's finest values by proactively advancing our development priorities.”

I think when you understand the complexities of America and the contradictions of America, I don’t think it makes you love it less. I think it makes you love it more.

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"

She knew she was going to mess me up, and she did it anyway."