Barack Obama: “Do we continue to build a middle class and generate ladders of opportunity so that anybody who works hard and is willing…”

The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president.

And I will fight for that, even if I don’t always think it’s going to win.

I think when we act on that basis, it doesn't always work out, but over time things do get better.

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable