Barack Obama: “Voting was not the end of the journey for equality, but the beginning of a new era in the advancement of our Union.”

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

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

It is a decision about how do we face and embrace this finite amount of time we have on the planet.

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.