Barack Obama: “These individuals bring tremendous expertise and experience to the critical work of this commission.”

While we are non-partisan, we are not value-neutral. We have a point of view.

The success of this experiment was never a given.

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.