Barack Obama: “I think it's pretty clear that Senator McCain's a little panicked right now.”

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”.

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

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.