There is a sentence that every State of the Union includes, and it always gets me. And I wanted to see if it gets you too. No matter what else is in the State of the Union, no matter which president is reading it, this is independent of presidents. By tradition they have this line where they say some version of "The state of the union is strong." Now President Trump said the state of the union is stronger than ever before. Same thing. For some reason that always just hits me in just the right way. Because you know, you spend a year at each other's throats with political partisan bickering, and you're busy with your life, and the news tells you everything's falling apart. But then you get in this room and the leader of the country says this sentence: the state of the union is stronger than ever. And then he goes through the proof and you hear the evidence about the economy. And you say to yourself, yeah, I mean if the population of the United States is ripping itself apart, if the structure of society is being unwound, would we have this economy? I don't think so. I don't think so at all. I think that the state of the economy is so good because the state of the union is so good. No matter what your news or your political pundits tell you, things are getting better all the time. Our ability to work with each other, to get past whatever biases we have, we're just getting better at that all the time. And then when it comes right down to it, we are on the same team. And it just always feels good when the president, whoever the president is, tells me that the state of the union is strong. There's something powerful about that.