Barack Obama: “We will continue to defend the rights of ethnic and religious minorities.”

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

Never talks that way when they are in the same room.

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.

People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.