let me finish tonight with this. i greatly enjoyed last night. it was a joy to see the president returning to the american narrative that brought him to his place in the country s contemporary history. it sounds contradictory. but it s true. we do disagree on how to improve opportunity for people. there is a shared value that americans do believe american people should be able to rise up from their beginnings. the son of a bar keep can become speaker of the u.s. house. the son of a single mother can become president. people say the president wasn t tough enough on his rivals last night. fine, we can disagree on tactics, my view is similar to the presidents. if you want some republican compliance on matters like minimum wage, don t spend the state of the union night dumping on them to their face. it just doesn t work. people don t come around even grudgingly if you re mocking them.
let me finish tonight with this. i greatly enjoyed last night. it was a joy to see the president returning to the american narrative that brought him to his place in the country s contemporary history. it sounds contradictory. but it s true. we do disagree on how to improve opportunity for people. there is a shared value that americans do believe american people should be able to rise up from their beginnings. the son of a bar keep can become speaker of the u.s. house. the son of a single mother can become president. people say the president wasn t tough enough on his rivals last night. fine, we can disagree on tactics, my view is similar to the presidents. if you want some republican
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give them a raise. reporter: despite praising house speaker john boehner s life story the son of a barkeep, the speaker of the house. reporter: there wasn t much that republicans seemed to like. i believe when women succeed, america succeeds. congress kneeleds to restore the unemployment insurance you just let expire for 1.6 million people. [ applause ] reporter: most decisive, the president s signature legislative achievement. obama made clear he s not interested in rehashing the health care fight. i do not expect to convince my republican friends on the merits of this law. but i know that the american people are not interested in refighting old battles. reporter: congresswoman cathy mcmorris rodgers taking the opposite view in the official republican response. republicans believe health care choices should be yourself.
america s largest automaker. how the son of a bar keep is speaker of the house. how the son of a single mom can be president of the greatest nation on earth. opportunity is w we are. and the definning project of our generation must be to restore that promise. we know where to start.