Barack Obama: “I do not accept that in the richest nation on Earth we have to stand by while 47 million Americans have no health care.”

Please join me in supporting Sherrod Brown. He’ll always fight for Ohio.

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”.

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

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