Barack Obama: “Today is the first Memorial Day in 14 years that the United States is not engaged in a major ground war.”

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.

It is a decision about how do we face and embrace this finite amount of time we have on the planet.

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

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