Barack Obama: “I am here today not just because I need your help, although I do, but I'm here because your country needs your help.”

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.

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…

never talks that way when they are in the same room.

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.