(Applause.) Victory is not winning for our party. There is a new opportunity in American politics, if only we have the courage, together, to seize it. Many of us have campaigned on the same core promises: to defend American jobs and demand fair trade for American workers to rebuild and revitalize our nation’s infrastructure to reduce the price of healthcare and prescription drugs to create an immigration system that is safe, lawful, modern, and secure and to pursue a foreign policy that puts America’s interests first. The agenda I will lay out this evening is not a Republican agenda or a Democrat agenda. Millions of our fellow citizens are watching us now, gathered in this great chamber, hoping that we will govern not as two parties but as one nation. As we begin a new Congress, I stand here ready to work with you to achieve historic breakthroughs for all Americans. We meet tonight at a moment of unlimited potential. Vice President, Members of Congress, the First Lady of the United States - (applause) - and my fellow Americans:
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