Barack Obama: “The goal here is a two-state -- is two states, one Israeli, one Palestinian, living side by side in peace and security.”

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”.

It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say.

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

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