Barack Obama: “The status quo is unsustainable, and Israel too must act boldly to advance a lasting peace.”

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.

Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.

And I will fight for that, even if I don’t always think it’s going to win.

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable