Barack Obama: “The future will not be a straight line. It will be full of surprises and setbacks. We must build resilience into our…”

America is currently experiencing anger and vision but we are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect.

I hope this center will serve as an affirmation of just how special, how precious our democracy truly is.

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

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.