Barack Obama: “Advance appropriations process promotes accountability, is fiscally responsible, and does not add a dime to the deficit.”

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”.

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

I think when we act on that basis, it doesn't always work out, but over time things do get better.

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