Barack Obama: “The United States honors the role of a free press in creating sustainable democracies and prosperous societies.”

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.

The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president.

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

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