Barack Obama: “Jon knows these are challenging times.”

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

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.

At least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people.

a belief that our military and law enforcement owe allegiance not to any president or political party, but to the people and our constitution … a belief in the peaceful transfer of power