America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
America is a living idea. It isn't only the tenets of its founding, but also the terms of its future. Every day, we make America. Seeking to preserve and enshrine one vision of this country from one period of its past robs it of what makes it magical: its infinite possibility for adjustment.
America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'
We have to breathe new life into Europe.
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
The American people have a right to know the air they breathe is safe.
I admire American ideas.
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
We don't need a new idea; the idea is called America, and it still works.
America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.