Barack Obama: “I am grateful to Rep. Ford for signing onto our campaign and adding his support and his voice to our team in Iowa.”

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.

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

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 success of this experiment was never a given.