Barack Obama: “I cannot argue with those who find these men and women... to be far more deserving of this honor than I.”

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.

Now the ball’s in your court, Iowa.

For almost four decades, Nancy Pelosi served the American people and worked to make our country better.

She knew she was going to mess me up, and she did it anyway.