Barack Obama: “Nobody should go bankrupt just because they get sick and no child should go without basic preventive care.”

It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say.

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

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

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