Andy Stumpf

And when they do come off, what you realize is that we live in a completely imperfect world that's never going to be perfect.

We also live in a completely imperfect country that is never going to be perfect.

We are never going to find a place.

We have never found a place.

We're approaching our 250th anniversary as a country next year.

Somebody point to me,

at a day, a second, an instant where we had it dialed, where we had agreeance on all issues, where there was no arguing, there was no contention, there was no disparity in beliefs, there was no disparity in economics.

Please point to me

when that was in our history.

Now, could things have gotten a lot worse than they were earlier on in our history?

For sure.

Not making that argument at all.

I'm not saying that certain things haven't accelerated, but what I'm saying is it was never perfect to begin with.

I love the ideals of America.

And this is, again, me.

I only speak for me.

And I do think

that I had a time where I had blind patriotism.

And I am legitimately glad that that is gone for me.

But I still absolutely love the ideals of what this country stands for.