Barack Obama: “Our Nation can only realize this idea through the guarantee of a world-class education for every child.”

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.

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.

the American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away