Barack Obama: “The tale of the Hebrew slaves and their flight from Egypt carries the hope and promise that the Jewish people have held…”

When we choose, when we make that decision, I do believe – and there is evidence for this – that the world gets incrementally better, and that is a worthy goal and it’s worth fighting for.

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.

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