Barack Obama: “The ability to recognize our common humanity... is our calling now: to keep those promises for the next generation.”

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

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

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.

never talks that way when they are in the same room.