Barack Obama: “Higher education is still the best ticket to upward mobility in America.”

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.

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.

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

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.