Barack Obama: “Let me tell you that Michelle may be a better dancer than me, but I'm convinced I'm a better dancer than John McCain.”

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

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

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

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable