Barack Obama: “The rights of the Iranian people to assemble, to speak freely, to have their voices heard, those are universal…”

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

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.

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.

This idea that any suggestion or criticism that America was anything other than perfect is unpatriotic... is a suggestion that you hate your country.