Barack Obama: “To resolve this situation, we'll need effective partners both in the form of effective governments where these actions…”

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

Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.

The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president.