Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Americans think that they have a history, but it's nothing compared to Europe.
More Americans are working today than at any time in history.
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.
We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.
As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.
The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.
Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.
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