Barack Obama: “Our goal is clear: to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism…”

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.

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

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