Barack Obama: “Juan Mattos Jr., of New Jersey, to be United States Marshal for the District of New Jersey for the term of four years…”

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

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

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.