LIFE IN AMERICA HAS NEVER BEEN MORE FAIR AND FREE Interview with Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Candidate for President
March 3, 2016 - US Senator Tim Scott of South Caro- lina speaking at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, MD.
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A s the presidential field for 2024 forms, the power of big ideas — as much as big person- alities — will shape the field, the inter- play between candidates, and what happens to our nation. In his first candidate interview, Robert Charles, AMAC’s National Spokesman, sat down to listen . . . AMAC Senator, in many ways, you repre- sent the American Dream, remark- able success through belief, action, persistence, and staying focused, somehow above the fray. Explain why you believe the American Dream is alive and well, and how we convey that to younger Americans.
Senator Scott Thank you [ . . . ] short answer is we have to model the behavior we want our next generation to follow. [ . . . ] As a kid, I was mired in poverty and was raised in a single-parent house- hold, but I also had good mentors and a grandfather who believed in the goodness of America. We each have an imagination, and this nation offers us the chance to use it, to unleash it, and to dream. We need to wake up and start build- ing, dreaming, and doing, and then remarkable things become possible. The key ingredient is recognizing the power of the American Dream — that what other people think is impossi-
ble is possible here; America makes it possible. We have worked for 250 years to create a more level playing field, a more perfect union, and life in Amer- ica has never been more fair and free — we have a free market econ- omy that allows us to work hard and to improve our worth, in every mean- ing of that word. The Bible encourages us to work hard, to persevere, and to be worthy by the “sweat of our brow.” America offers the conditions to do that, the conditions for success. And there is something else unique about Ameri- cans, tied to the American Dream. We
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