Barack Obama: “Instead of reaching for new horizons, George Bush has put us in a hole.”

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.

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”.