We're facing headwinds from Europe. Europe doing the right things here to stabilize their situation is important to our small businesses, our workers, the middle class here, and overall economy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.
I think Europe is going in the right direction and we shouldn't be set back.
Europeans have it better than the Americans. The Americans work too hard. The balance is out of whack. Europe's hung onto a little bit more of living a life and then working as well.
So that we focus not on competing visions for Europe but on what Europe can do to improve economic growth, to give us a cleaner environment, to create more jobs, to make us more secure.
Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.
The Europeans governments have massively changed the landscape in Europe. There is no doubt about it. They have put together the European Financial Stability Fund. They have discussed and approved the European Stability Mechanism.
Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world.
What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.
We've got to get things done. We've got an economy that is stabilized, but not moving ahead.
Europe is a strong market for the U.S. If it has problems, if there's a lack of consumer confidence, if there's a deeper recession, this will deeply affect jobs in the U.S.