Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008.

The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous arms race and raise the prospect of a transfer of nuclear know-how to terrorists. Its president denies the Holocaust and threatens to wipe Israel off the map. The danger from Iran is grave, it is real.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who have different values than you

Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

Don't let your failures define you.

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.