Barack Obama: “I urge the House to move forward with this legislation as they did earlier this year.”

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.

People need to “rediscover what’s the story we tell about how we’re going to live together, and see each other, and recognise each other, and disagree, and yet, still care for each other”.