Barack Obama: “Germany enables the United States to maintain a strong and robust transatlantic relationship with its European partners…”

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…

The success of this experiment was never a given.

it was nevertheless important that we all play a part in assuring that our elected officials are accountable.

the American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away