Barack Obama: “We will never forget the searing images of September 11, 2001.”

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

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

I am very happy to see a ceasefire. And I’m hopeful that it holds.

No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting legislation passed.