Barack Obama: “In every election, politicians come to your cities and your towns and they tell you what you want to hear. And they make…”

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

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

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

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