Barack Obama: “He can either lead the progress toward reform or he could step out of the way.”

This race is going to be close. It could determine which party controls the Senate and whether Ohioans can count on the people in Washington to be fighting for you.

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

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