Barack Obama: “We play for first place.”

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.

I hope this center will serve as an affirmation of just how special, how precious our democracy truly is.

The success of this experiment was never a given.

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.