Barack Obama: “This status quo is morally inexcusable, it is economically indefensible.”

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

I thought this was the South Side of Chicago.

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.

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.