Barack Obama: “The conventional thinking in Washington tells us that we're a country divided into Red States and Blue States; that…”

If I had a blame pie for why politics is so polarised and why we're seeing a rise of populism in many places, it's because of that information that is going into our brains every day.

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.

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

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