Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.

We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe.

We're all in this together. That's how we campaigned, and that's who we are. This happened because of you. Thank you.

And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.

We are not entitled to success we have to earn it

State visits are often an opportunity for the United States to reaffirm our ties and friendship with our closest partners around the world.

The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that it excluded domestic workers or agricultural workers, you might not see race in it, unless you knew that that covered a huge chunk of African Americans, particularly in the South.