Barack Obama: “Ann D. Begeman, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Surface Transportation Board.”

I’m going to insist that we can do better than we’re doing right now.

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

When we choose, when we make that decision, I do believe – and there is evidence for this – that the world gets incrementally better, and that is a worthy goal and it’s worth fighting for.

Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.