Barack Obama: “The road to recovery, the road to prosperity, is going to be hard.”

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.

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

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.

The American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away