Barack Obama: “2014 is our goal... to have Afghans in the lead throughout the country in Afghanistan.”

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

When we choose, when we make that decision, I do believe – and there is evidence for this – that the world gets incrementally better, and that is a worthy goal and it’s worth fighting for.

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.