Barack Obama: “Deficits do matter, which is why the President has laid out a balanced approach to dealing with our long-term deficit…”

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.

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

If I had a blame pie for why politics is so polarised and why we're seeing a rise of populism in many places, it's because of that information that is going into our brains every day.

People need to “rediscover what’s the story we tell about how we’re going to live together, and see each other, and recognise each other, and disagree, and yet, still care for each other”.