Barack Obama: “I hereby declare that an emergency exists in the State of Minnesota.”

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

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.

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

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