Barack Obama: “These professionals have successfully led a Government-wide effort to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al-Qa'ida and its…”

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

And I will fight for that, even if I don’t always think it’s going to win.

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”.

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