Our democracy won't work without a sense that everyone has economic opportunity.

This is a president who's very emotional about leaving office and a little bit worried about what's going to come next.

But, for all the real progress that we've made, we know it's not enough.

Politics is a battle of ideas. That's how our democracy was designed.

Take the challenge of climate change. In just eight years we've halved our dependence on foreign oil.

It falls to each of us to be those anxious, jealous guardians of our democracy.

When voting rates in America are some of the lowest among advanced democracies, we should be making it easier, not harder, to vote.

If we're unwilling to invest in the children of immigrants, just because they don't look like us, we will diminish the prospects of our own children.

It's the conviction that we are all created equal, endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The success and the vibrancy of our democracy depends on that kind of citizen engagement.

We can argue about how to best achieve these goals. But we can't be complacent about the goals themselves.

I am asking you to hold fast to that faith written into our founding documents.