Barack Obama: “While I pledged to slash earmarks by more than half when I'm President of the United States of America.”

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.

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