Barack Obama: “I want to know why we are spending $20 million and we lost.”

A belief that our military and law enforcement owe allegiance not to any president or political party, but to the people and our constitution … a belief in the peaceful transfer of power

It fortifies you to say that, yes, this has been part of the journey that we’re on.

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.

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.