Barack Obama: “How come the polls show a race much closer than many anticipated?”

And I will fight for that, even if I don’t always think it’s going to win.

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

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.

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