Barack Obama: “She's worked around the clock to respond to natural disasters, from the Joplin tornado to Hurricane Sandy, helping…”

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.

It is a decision about how do we face and embrace this finite amount of time we have on the planet.

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