Barack Obama: “We're both interested in combating terrorism, both internationally and in our respective countries.”

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.

The success of this experiment was never a given.