Barack Obama: “Russia needs to recognize the election that just took place and President-elect Poroshenko as the legitimate leader of…”

I was a little tall for it.

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.

I am very happy to see a ceasefire. And I’m hopeful that it holds.

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