Barack Obama: “I also send my best wishes to Gordon Brown and thank him for his friendship and his distinguished service as Prime…”

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.

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.