Barack Obama: “We're trying to create the jobs of the future, and we're trying to get this economy moving again, fix the banking system…”

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

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

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

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.