Barack Obama: “The only way we're going to break this cycle of spiking gas prices for good is to shift our cars and trucks off of oil…”

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

It is a decision about how do we face and embrace this finite amount of time we have on the planet.

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

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