Barack Obama: “I'm going to keep on doing everything I can to make sure you get that shot and to keep America a place where you can…”

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

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”.

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.