Barack Obama: “Our economy works best when everybody has a stake and everybody is getting ahead.”

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

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

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.