Barack Obama: “It's the right thing to do for the American economy and the American people, and certainly the right thing to do for…”

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.

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