Barack Obama: “Congratulations on the historic victory of your party in Turkey's June 12 parliamentary elections.”

While we are non-partisan, we are not value-neutral. We have a point of view.

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…

the American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away

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