Barack Obama: “Part of what we have to measure against is what didn't happen and not just what has happened.”

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.

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

I thought this was the South Side of Chicago.

It fortifies you to say that, yes, this has been part of the journey that we’re on.