Barack Obama: “I actually think that the issue that required the most political courage was the decision not to bomb Syria after the…”

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

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.