Barack Obama: “Ken will bring to the Department of the Interior an abiding commitment to this land we love.”

When we choose, when we make that decision, I do believe – and there is evidence for this – that the world gets incrementally better, and that is a worthy goal and it’s worth fighting for.

This race is going to be close. It could determine which party controls the Senate and whether Ohioans can count on the people in Washington to be fighting for you.

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.