Barack Obama: “I am extremely pleased that polling has started for the Southern Sudan referendum and congratulate the people of…”

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.

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.

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