Barack Obama: “The fact that, as the Vice President said, politics has broken out in Iraq is a good thing.”

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

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

That's what I hope every visitor to this center takes away from their experience.

The success of this experiment was never a given.