Barack Obama: “We don't want people to stop fulfilling the core responsibilities of the financial system to help grow the economy.”

America is currently experiencing anger and vision but we are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect.

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’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…