Without going into the nitty gritty, my favorite moments of his speech were:

- His out of the box recommendations to encourage income equality, including free Pre-K and Community college, bolstering unemployment hand outs with vocational training programs, and creating a tax break for low income, single earners who do NOT have children.

- His rebuttal for critics of global warning: "Look, if anybody still wants to dispute the science around climate change, have at it. You will be pretty lonely, because you’ll be debating our military, most of America’s business leaders, the majority of the American people, almost the entire scientific community, and 200 nations around the world who agree it’s a problem and intend to solve it."

-  His declaration that the U.S. is not weak when it comes to defense: "No nation attacks us directly, or our allies, because they know that’s the path to ruin. Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead -- they call us."

- The final point of his speech addressing the problems with politics; voting districts should not be drawn by politicians and a handful of families and groups should not have the ability to bankroll our elections. Wall Street was responsible for the collapse, not "food stamps".

- His enthusiastic and firm declaration at the end "And that’s why I stand here confident as I have ever been that the State of our Union is strong!"