Thread by @W7VOA

"There is a new opportunity in American politics if only we have the courage to seize it," says @POTUS. "Victory is not winning for our party. Victory is winning for our country." #SOTU

"We must create a new standard of living for the 21st century -- an amazing quality of life for all of our citizens is within reach," says @POTUS, promising to make the middle class "bigger and more prosperous than ever before." #SOTU

"We must choose between greatness or gridlock, results or resistance, vision or vengeance, incredible progress or pointless destruction," says @POTUS in #SOTU. "Tonight, I ask you to choose greatness."

"After 24 months of rapid progress, our economy is the envy of the world, our military is the most powerful on earth by far...and America is again winning each and every day," according to @POTUS. "Members of Congress: the State of our Union is strong." #SOTU

"An economic miracle is taking place in the United States -- and the only thing that can stop it are foolish wars, politics, or ridiculous partisan investigations," says @POTUS in #SOTU.

"If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation. It just doesn't work that way!" adds @POTUS. "We must be united at home to defeat our adversaries abroad." #SOTU

"As we speak, large, organized caravans are on the march to the United States," says @POTUS.

"We have just heard that Mexican cities, in order to remove the illegal immigrants from their communities, are getting trucks and buses to bring them up to our country in areas where there is little border protection." #SOTU

"I have ordered another 3,750 troops to our southern border to prepare for the tremendous onslaught."

"This is a moral issue. The lawless state of our southern border is a threat to the safety, security, and financial well‑being of all Americans. We have a moral duty to create an immigration system that protects the lives and jobs of our citizens."

"Tonight, I am asking you to defend our very dangerous southern border out of love and devotion to our fellow citizens and to our country," @POTUS says to Congress in #SOTU.

"In the past, most of the people in this room voted for a wall -- but the proper wall never got built. I will get it built," vows @POTUS in #SOTU.

"This is a smart, strategic, see-through steel barrier -- not just a simple concrete wall. It will be deployed in the areas identified by the border agents as having the greatest need, and these agents will tell you, where walls go up, illegal crossings go way, way down." #SOTU

"Simply put, walls work and walls save lives," according to @POTUS. "So let's work together, compromise and reach a deal that will truly make America safe." #SOTUS

The Democratic Party women in white get on their feet to applaud @POTUS comments about empowerment of women.

"As part of our commitment to improving opportunity for women everywhere, this Thursday we are launching the first-ever Government-wide initiative focused on economic empowerment for women in developing countries," announces @POTUS in #SOTU.

"We are now making it clear to China that after years of targeting our industries, and stealing our intellectual property, the theft of American jobs and wealth has come to an end," says @POTUS in #SOTU.

"I have great respect for President Xi and we are now working on a new trade deal with China. But it must include real, structural change to end unfair trade practices, reduce our chronic trade deficit and protect American jobs."

"Tonight I am also asking you to pass the United States Reciprocal Trade Act so that if another country places an unfair tariff on an American product, we can charge them the exact same tariff on the exact same product that they sell to us," says @POTUS. #SOTU

"I know that the Congress is eager to pass an infrastructure bill and I am eager to work with you on legislation to deliver new " important infrastructure investment including investments in the cutting edge industries of the future. This is not an option. This is a necessity."

"The next major priority for me, and for all of us, should be to lower the cost of healthcare and prescription drugs -- and to protect patients with pre-existing conditions," says @POTUS in #SOTU.

"I am asking the Congress to pass legislation that finally takes on the problem of global freeloading and delivers fairness and price transparency for American patients," adds @POTUS in #SOTU.

"My budget will ask Democrats and Republicans to make the needed commitment to eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years," announces @POTUS in #SOTU.

"I am asking the Congress to pass legislation to prohibit the late-term abortion of children who can feel pain in the mother's womb," says @POTUS in #SOTU.

"Perhaps we can negotiate a different (missile) agreement (with Russia), adding China and others, or perhaps we can't –- in which case, we will outspend and out-innovate all others by far," vows @POTUS in #SOTU.

"Chairman Kim and I will meet again on February 27th and 28th in Vietnam," announces @POTUS in #SOTU.

"We stand with the Venezuelan people in their noble quest for freedom -- and we condemn the brutality of the Maduro regime, whose socialist policies have turned that nation from being the wealthiest in South America into a state of abject poverty and despair," says @POTUS.

"Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country," says @POTUS. "America was founded on liberty and independence and not government coercion, domination, and control." #SOTU

"Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country," adds @POTUS in #SOTU.

"Now, as we work with our allies to destroy the remnants of ISIS, it is time to give our brave warriors in Syria a warm welcome home," says @POTUS.

"In Afghanistan my administration is holding constructive talks with a number of Afghan groups, including the Taliban. As we make progress in these negotiations, we will be able to reduce our troops' presence and focus on counter-terrorism..." says @POTUS.

"We do not know whether we'll achieve an agreement -- but we do know that after two decades of war, the hour has come to at least try for peace." #SOTU

"We will not avert our eyes from a regime that chants "Death to America' and threatens genocide against the Jewish people," says @POTUS speaking about #Iran. "We must never ignore the vile poison of anti-Semitism or those who spread its venomous creed."

"With one voice we must confront this hatred anywhere and everywhere it occurs," adds @POTUS in #SOTU.

"We must keep America first in our hearts," says @POTUS. "We must keep freedom alive in our souls. And we must always keep faith in America's destiny -- that one Nation, under God, must be the hope and the promise and the light and the glory among all the nations of the world!"

"Thank you. God Bless You, And God Bless America. Thank you very much," concludes @POTUS in #SOTU address here at the Capitol.