Barack Obama: “Our service members, their families, and our country all benefit from veterans' talents, experience, and dedication.”

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.

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.

We don’t have any folks who grill here?

No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting legislation passed.