Barack Obama: “Change is finishing a war against al Qaeda in Afghanistan that we never should have ignored.”

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.

The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president.

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.