Barack Obama: “We have taken important steps that speak to who we are as a Nation that cares for its families and children.”

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.

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

If I had a blame pie for why politics is so polarised and why we're seeing a rise of populism in many places, it's because of that information that is going into our brains every day.