Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

With respect to Syria, we are going to continue to work as we have over the last five, six years to push towards a political transition and settlement.

I have made it a top priority for my administration to deepen cooperation with Israel across the whole spectrum of security issues - intelligence, military, technology.

The brain is a body part too; we just know less about it.

We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward.

While we breathe, we will hope.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.