Barack Obama: “Cassandra Q. Butts, of the District of Columbia, to be a Representative of the United States of America to the…”

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

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.

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.