Barack Obama: “The perpetrators of this attack were clearly targeting Christian worshipers and have no respect for human life and…”

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.

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