Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that.
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Everybody wants to be American, it seems; I travel enough to know.
I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.
Success in America - what I find with my homeland, nothing lasts very long. Europe is different. You're right there with them until you come back.
What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.
America saw me as a projection of me that I always wanted. That's why I love going to America so much. I feel like I started off in America exactly how I wanted to start everywhere.
America is fickle. You never know what they're going to go for.
People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.
America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.
America is a country defined by a set of ideas, and when people choose to accept those ideas, they should be able to become Americans, as fully so as any - and perhaps more so than most - regardless of how recently they or their ancestors arrived upon our shores. This is the true American tradition, which as conservatives we must defend.
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