Barack Obama: “The goal that we seek is achievable, and can be expressed simply: No safe haven from which al Qaeda or its affiliates…”

There’s no doubt that we are going through a period right now of disruption, polarization.

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 success of this experiment was never a given.

That was fantastic. I was a little tall for it.