Barack Obama: “I am very confident that the American people were not issuing a mandate for gridlock.”

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

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.

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

For almost four decades, Nancy Pelosi served the American people and worked to make our country better.