Barack Obama: “Tonight we remember and honor President Yar'Adua's profound personal decency and integrity.”

I was a little tall for it.

There’s no doubt that we are going through a period right now of disruption, polarization.

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

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.