Barack Obama: “If you're going to succeed, it's because people are going to think that they have confidence that you can do the job.”

Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.

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

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

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