Barack Obama: “Now, we can expect that these proposed changes will be met with heavy resistance from the special interests and their…”

People need to “rediscover what’s the story we tell about how we’re going to live together, and see each other, and recognise each other, and disagree, and yet, still care for each other”.

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

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