Barack Obama: “The necessity to set aside maximalist positions is paramount if you're trying to reach common ground”

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

The essence of Prop. 50 is to say that if you are going to play that game, then we are going to try to counteract that abuse of the system.

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.