America's role in the global economy inevitably was going to diminish; we're smaller relative to - as China, India, other emerging markets grow.
What has happened to America's survival instincts?
The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
We have created thousands and thousands of places in America that aren't worth caring about, and when we have enough of them, we're going to have a country that's not worth defending.
I think that a great deal of what made America special is lost beyond recall, and I don't have any good policy ideas that I am at all confident will go very far in bringing that back.
America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.
When I declared my candidacy, I knew what bad shape America was in. And believe me all you have to do is look at world events. All you have to do is look at the $1.7 billion that we sent to Iran in cash. In cash. All you have to do is see the way ISIS was created in the vacuum left by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama out of Iraq.
Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.
I worry about the future of this country for our kids and grandkids and America not being on the world stage and that vacuum being filled by the likes of Vladimir Putin.
Obama's not ultimately gonna get away with totally destroying America. His damage already done is brutal and he's gonna do more and we're gonna have an incredible amount of hard work ahead of us.
Look at that! America, master of the world, is crashing down. Look at that! The Satan who rules the world, east and west, is burning. Look at that! The sponsor of terrorism is itself seared by fire.
