Barack Obama: “We continue to lend our unique assets and capabilities to assist the search.”

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

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.

The success of this experiment was never a given.

This idea that any suggestion or criticism that America was anything other than perfect is unpatriotic... is a suggestion that you hate your country.