Barack Obama: “It's never been harder to save or retire; to buy gas or groceries.”

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.

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.

That was fantastic. I was a little tall for it.