Barack Obama: “I think the Arizona law was a mistake.”

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

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”.