Barack Obama: “The American people—and the men and women of our intelligence community as well—deserve nothing less.”

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.

No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting legislation passed.

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.

This idea that any suggestion or criticism that America was anything other than perfect is unpatriotic... is a suggestion that you hate your country.