Barack Obama: “It was like a month ago, they were all saying, oh, it's experience, experience, experience. And then they chose Palin…”

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

And I will fight for that, even if I don’t always think it’s going to win.

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

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable