Barack Obama: “We need to seize opportunities in rural America to secure our energy future and save our planet.”

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

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

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.

People need to “rediscover what’s the story we tell about how we’re going to live together, and see each other, and recognise each other, and disagree, and yet, still care for each other”.