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Getting countries working together was my job every day as your secretary of state.
Sep 16, 2025
Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of people's own initiative and efforts and so forth. Prosperity, if it comes from the government, is not prosperity. It's an existence or a subsistence or whatever, but it isn't prosperity.
The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.
Getting countries working together was my job every day as your secretary of state. It`s more than a photo op. It takes consistency and reliability. And it certainly takes more than trying on make up for a year of insults and insinuations by dropping in on our neighbors for a few hours and then flying home again. That is not how it works.
The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.
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