Obama delivers State of Union address

January 21, 2015 08:21

United States President Barack Obama delivered the sixth State of the Union address. Here are the highlights:

:Tonight, after a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999. Our unemployment rate is now lower than it was before the financial crisis.We battled terror, went past recession and fought wars."

"More of our kids are graduating than ever before. More of our people are insured than ever before.We salute the courage and sacrifice of every man and woman in this 9/11 generation who has served to keep us safe.It's now up to us to choose who we want to be over the next 15 years, and for decades to come."

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