Barack Obama: “I'm calling on Congress to provide surviving spouses with 100 percent of the Survivor Benefit Plan promised.”

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

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

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”.

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