Barack Obama: “People, if they had high premiums on their health care before, they're going to have even higher premiums after.”

Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

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

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