Barack Obama: “America's unshakeable commitment to religious freedom binds us together as a people.”

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

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.

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.

For almost four decades, Nancy Pelosi served the American people and worked to make our country better.