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America has seen enough of a handful of people growing rich at the cost of our nation descending into economic crisis.

For all our current troubles, Americans are still the hardest working, most innovative people on the face of the earth. By trusting the American people, instead of government, we'll continue to surprise and inspire the world.

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

We Americans typically are more positive about our individual futures, which we have some control over, than we are the nation's or the world's, which we see largely through the media prism.

Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others.

The world has changed. It's not enough to simply buy American; we have to sell American, sell our products and goods and services throughout this world.

We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world's greatest power.