Barack Obama: “the enduring importance of the U.S.-Turkish partnership”

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

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

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

It fortifies you to say that, yes, this has been part of the journey that we’re on.