Barack Obama: “America owes Reverend Shuttlesworth a debt of gratitude.”

That was fantastic. I was a little tall for it.

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.

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

The success of this experiment was never a given.