Barack Obama: “Hope as that spirit inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better is waiting for…”

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

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

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

When we choose, when we make that decision, I do believe – and there is evidence for this – that the world gets incrementally better, and that is a worthy goal and it’s worth fighting for.