Barack Obama: “This turnaround has been especially dramatic in the United States.”

While we are non-partisan, we are not value-neutral. We have a point of view.

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

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.

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