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Assertive about America's responsibilities in today's bewildering world, Obama said that there is no need to send troops to occupy other nation and instead argued for helping countries like Yemen, Syria and Libya to stand on their own feet and fight successfully against terrorist. He vowed to work with other nations towards global poverty elimination and an AIDS-free world. Obama also announced that the US would enter into talks for a free trade agreement with the European Union. In his speech that lasted for more than an hour, Obama asked the Congress to show bipartisanship and work with him to be the authors of the next great chapter of American story. Speaking on climate change, Obama pledged to take unilateral action if the Congress refuses to back him, asserting that the country must "act before, it's too late." "For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change," Obama said. "We should follow the example of a police officer named Brian Murphy," Obama said referring to the heroics shown by this Oak Tree Police officer who saved people during a Sikh Gurdwara shootout in Wisconsin last year. "When a gunman opened fire on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin and Brian was the first to arrive, he did not consider his own safety. He fought back until help arrived and ordered his fellow officers to protect the safety of the Americans worshiping inside, even as he lay bleeding from 12 bullet wounds. And when asked how he did that, Brian said, 'That's just the way we're made'," Obama said. While the country has progressed a lot in the last four years, in terms of improvement in the economy, and the almost ending of the decade old war, Obama said: "Together, we have cleared away the rubble of crisis, and we can say with renewed confidence that the State of our Union is stronger." But there are millions of Americans whose hard work and dedication have not yet been rewarded. Our economy is adding jobs - but too many people still can�t find full-time employment. Corporate profits have skyrocketed to all-time highs -- but for more than a decade, wages and incomes have barely budged, he noted. "It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class. It is our unfinished task to restore the basic bargain that built this country - the idea that if you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead, no matter where you come from," Obama said as he spelt out the agenda of his next four years. Soon after the speech, Indian-American Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal blasted Democrat Obama for what he described doubling down on failed policies from the past while outlining his shortsighted vision for the future in his address. 41-year-old influential Republican leader Jindal, according to political experts is among the frontrunners for the party's presidential nomination in the 2016 elections. However, Obama's speech received positive review from the media. While CBS's Bob Schieffer called the speech much "better" than Obama's inaugural address, which he said had come across as a "partisan lecture", Fox News' Charles Krauthammer, called it "effective � it did what he had to do." "Obama's broad second-term agenda is impressive," The New York Times said.