We didn't want to deny change and try to hold back for a past we couldn't recover. Neither did we want to say, well, we ought to just let whatever is going to happen, happen, and let whatever happens to people happen. I knew that we couldn't go back to the time when all Americans were told, you've got to fend for yourself. It has worked. We cut the deficit in half.
Exports are at an all-time high.
Homeownership is at a 15-year high. We've had three years of record formations of new businesses in each of the last three years. And we did it while shrinking the size of the federal government to its smallest size in 30 years. And it is working. This strategy is working.