We have to focus on how do we ensure the economy works for everybody, and not just a few.

In the Muslim world, this notion that somehow everything is the fault of the Israelis lacks balance - because there's two sides to every question. That doesn't mean that sometimes one side has done something wrong and should not be condemned. But it does mean there's always two sides to an issue. I say the same thing to my Jewish friends, which is you have to see the perspective of the Palestinians. Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future.

Where we get into problems, typically, is when our personal religious faith, or the community of faith that we participate in, tips into a sort of fundamentalist extremism, in which it's not enough for us to believe what we believe, but we start feeling obligated to, you know, hit you over the head because you don't believe the same thing. Or to treat you as somebody who's less than I am.

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether government works.