I kind of like America. I'm not looking for it to be fundamentally transformed into something else. I don't want it to become like Europe.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.
If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe.
I'd rather live in the U.S. than Europe.
You can suddenly have a series of countries waking up and saying, 'I want the same status as the Brits,' which will be, de facto, the dismantling of the rest of Europe.
I don't want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO. Even less do I want a Europe where it's everyone against everyone, and social and fiscal dumping replaces solidarity.
I just like the United States, and I like being an American.
I never wanted to change countries; it's something that is part of me.
Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.
The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.
What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.