Barack Obama: “Our interest and commitment to trying to reach agreement on a framework.”

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.

America is currently experiencing anger and vision but we are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect.

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.

People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.