It's particularly important that we reach out to everybody in our countries, those who feel disaffected, those who feel left behind by globalization and address their concerns in constructive ways as opposed to more destructive ways.

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.

After a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999.

When all Americans are treated as equal we are all more free.

We cannot allow internet service providers to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas.

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had - to find the greatness that lies within each of us.