Barack Obama: “Don't tell me words don't matter. I have a dream, just words.”

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

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

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.

The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president.