Barack Obama: “We are strongly committed to an Iraq that is sovereign and stable and self-reliant.”

The success of this experiment was never a given.

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.

I was a little tall for it.

I think when you understand the complexities of America and the contradictions of America, I don’t think it makes you love it less. I think it makes you love it more.