Barack Obama: “I think all of us are confident we can now achieve a broader sense of a U.S. relationship with a democratic Iraq.”

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…

I hope this center will serve as an affirmation of just how special, how precious our democracy truly is.

The success of this experiment was never a given.

She knew she was going to mess me up, and she did it anyway."