Barack Obama: “I can't imagine a better place to be than right here with the sons and daughters of Ireland--and those who wish they…”

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

I think when you understand the complexities of America and the contradictions of America, I don’t think it makes you love it less. I think it makes you love it more.

I was a little tall for it.

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.