Barack Obama: “I appreciate very much the meeting.”

It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say.

The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views.

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

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