happiness. [applause] what part of "pursued" and delta bandstand? -- "pursuit"don't they understand? in the declaration of independence you don't stop there. keep reading. the next paragraph says "when any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it." [applause] so, when you hear some of your friends say what can we do? tell them to keep reading.

read the rest of that paragraph. because if you look at what is going on, we have some abolishing and altering to do in order to take back this nation and to take back our government. the thing that i would start with is to abolish the tax code and replace it with the fairtax. abolish the tax code. [applause] i was not here during slavery in this country, but i do know a little bit about it. the tax code has become the present-day slave master for all of us. abolish it. we also have some altering that we need to do. we have some altering to do. we have got collectively to alter this liberal express going

on in washington, d.c. we have to alter this liberal express. let's make sure we are on the same page. i am an old mathematics major. the first thing you do as a math major is to make sure you understand the assumptions and definitions. that is where you start. let me define "conservative." let me define "liberal," so you'll know where i'm coming from. part of the problem many of us have in trying to discuss something with a little is they don't know whether they are liberal or conservative. i define conservative real simply as someone who believes in less government, less taxes, and more individual responsibility. and a liberal believes in more government, more taxes, and less

individual responsibility. conservatives believe in the free-market, free enterprise, and freedom. liberals believe and government markets, government enterprises, and the governmengovernment. that is how you tell them apart. we have to stop this liberal express. now, there are three ways when you are trying to have a discussion with a liberal, three key is that let you know how tough a job you're going to have been able to engage them in civilized dialogue. you have all been there. i get it sometimes from some of the callers who call us. they are determined that they

are going to knock me off my game with their passion, with all of their unsubstantiated ideas. but i have noticed the pattern. this whole health care deform legislation. normally, if you reform something, it gets better. not one i did that is floating around in congress will make our health care system better. all of those ideas, either individually or collectively, will further deform the best health-care system in the world. even though we have issues. yes, we have issues. i am a federally calling it the health care reform distraction. not a debate.

liberals don't debate you. they tried to distract you. here are the three things to look for. one night i called my radio show. he is one of my regular flaming liberals that listens to my show a lot. i announced to the audience ahead of time, i said this is him coming up now. let me tell you what thomas is going to do. let me tell you how this conversation is going to go. because thomas is a flaming liberal and he just goes right down the script every time he calls. the first thing you look for when you are trying to have a discussion with a liberal and you are about to nail them on a point, they changed the subject. they change the subject. you have had that happened. you can be talking about the tax

code and out of nowhere they will start talking about "inner- city crime has gone up." we were not talking about that. so the first thing you notice is they will change the subject on you. second, conservatives like to use facts and logic. the liberals ignore the facts. they cannot handle the facts, as jack nicholson would say. you can have all the facts in the world, but they will just ignore the facts. so, if they don't change the subject on you, if they don't ignore the facts on you, and you are trying to have a dialogue, the third thing that they do is they blame bush. [applause]

it has to be bush's fault. so thomas called one night and we were talking about health care. that is exactly what he did. i just sat there and did not say a word for about two and a half minutes while thomas entertained my listeners. that is exactly what he did. let's apply this to the health care discussion. when the democrats in congress and the liberals in washington, d.c. could not convince enough of us to drink the health-care the fordeform kool-aid, based oe erroneous statistic of 50 billion uninsured people -- 50 million uninsured people, they were trying to get 256 million

of us to feel guilty about the 50 million. there were touting that 50 million people are uninsured. my, don't we feel sorry for them. we need to tear up the health care system and fix the problem for this 50 million. but a strange thing happened on the way to stretching the truth. in that 50 million -- and people started to figure this out -- i have talked about it -- we don't have 50 million chronically uninsured people in this country. part of that 50 million, about 10 million or so, to give you a round number, they are illegal residents -- legal residents, but not citizens.

if they choose not to have health insurance, that is their problem. why are we going to feel sorry for them? those are just the legal ones. then you have about 17 million of that 50 million, they make more than $50,000 a year. why should we tear up our entire system? don't get the idea that i am not compassionate. i am compassionate. when it's as "the pursuit of happiness" it also meant the pursuit of your health and health insurance, but you have to do something yourself first, for the government does it for you. [applause]

a lady by the name of sally pipes, the ceo of the opposite against -- ceo of the pacific research institute. she wrote "unraveling the myth about american health care." it is an easy read. she goes through all the myths that are there, relative to what is going on and the message that the leveliberals and democrats e trying to get people to believe. in arbuckle, she takes that -- when the book was published, the lie that they were perpetuating was 47 million. she breaks down that 47 million by the various groups. she got the information at the census. that breaks down to tell you how

many people are chronically uninsured. the number is anywhere from 8 million to 10 million. that is the real number. she documents it in her book. and so, the liberals, in an attempt to dismantle and confiscate our entire health- care system, have used this number to try and to convince the 256 million of us that we ought to turn our system totally upside down because you have 47 million people out there without health insurance. then they go a step further. they start proclaiming that people don't have access to health care. that is al lie. emergency rooms in america are not allowed to turn anybody

away. they have access. [applause] and so, when you start trying to share the facts with the liberals, they changed the subject on you. they don't want to hear the facts. the good news about the whole health-care deform legislation -- i want you to get that into your lexicon -- the good news is you and i and the american people have been able to slow it down. [applause] before you reverse something, the laws of physics say that you have to slow it down first. we are not going to turn it around overnight, but it is slowing down. why? many of the american people are starting to understand what they

were trying to ram down the throats of the american people. we have had an opportunity to read some of it. those who did not get an opportunity to read it, have had an opportunity to listen to someone who has. a lady by the name of dr. betsy mccloy-- mccoy. i had her on my radio show. on my website page -- herman cain.com. cain, like kane and abel in the bible, but i did not kill anybody. that is how you remember it. you'll see a big link that will take you to the radio station to my radio show. i have her interview that was so

compelling that i have added a page for my radio show site that highlights three articles she has written. and you can listen to the interview i did on the radio. technology is a wonderful thing. her name is not spelled mccoy. she wrote three topics on healthcare in america and the legislation. when she was on my show, one of the things that impressed me so much was she has not only read the 1018 page legislation, she has read it twice. i said, you poor thing. she has read it twice. she was able to tell you pages where you find the treaty language that does, in fact,

lead to socialized medicine and lead to rationing and leads to end of life counseling, and

at town hall meetings all appear like they are a bunch of crazy people, it reminds me of what my grandfather used to say, "we are going to show you some crazy." because there are some people in this country who are crazy about liberty, crazy about freedom, and crazy about keeping this country moving in the right direction, not moving in a backward direction. that is what we are crazy about. [applause] and so, as you get into the discussion, whether it is healthcare or cap and tax or trade and kill, you need to arm

yourself with the facts. then you will be on a much better -- in a much better position not to just counter the lynn brol rhetoric, but you will be in a position to appeal to a lot of people that just don't know. they don't have the time. they are busy trying to take care of their families, or they are working and don't have time to listen to talk radio or read articles. but you'll have an occasion to help somebody by giving them a few compelling facts about a particular issue. to give them -- to get them to at least stop and think about rather than fall for the rhetoric of what i call the lapdog mainstream media, but that is what is right now. so on yourselves with the facts. i know that a lot of people get frustrated. i get calls all the time from

thewho get frustrated when they see what's going on --. the misuse of power in washington. they always ask me "what can we do? we have a democrat in the white house and the democrat controlled house and senate by a large margin at least in the house." too many conservatives are being beaten into submission. they want us to believe that we should simply surrender. every night on my radio show i send a message to washington, d.c. conservatives will never surrender. no matter what they say or what they do. we will not surrender [applause]

i realize that we had -- we are at a bit of a disadvantage right now, but we have two powerful weapons. we just have to know how to use them. the first one is our vote. we got beat last november. no need crying over that. let's get ready for november 2010 when we get an opportunity to vote. because, unfortunately, too many conservatives kept their votes at home last november because they did not like either candidate. the popular vote difference was only about 4 million votes. pretty soon acorn won't have any more criminals they can register. so, if the conservatives voted, we can beat them. they will run out of criminals to sign up. remember, let's start looking

to november 2010. we may not be able -- then again we may be able to totally reversed control of congress. if you look at what is going on at these town hall meetings, there are some angry, determined folks out there. they are waking up. even though the liberals and the democrats don't want to believe it, there are more americans who are not stuck in stupid land today it than those that are. those are the people that are showing up. as tony said, that movement is real, because it is real people that have real anger about what is going on and what is being shoved down our throats. don't forget the power of that vote. last week i was shopping at a store. a lady wanted to talk with me. she said, mr. cain, you are my

favorite conservative. i said thanks, arguable or conservative? she said, i don't know, but i am having some real concerns about president barack obama. i said, did you vote for him? she said, nope. i said, did you vote for john mccain? she said no. she said ansari to say i did not vote. i said, i called her by name, although i won't call the now because she might be watching on c-span, i said, that is why the republicans lost, because they were looking for the perfect republican candidate. and look what we got. sitting at home with your vote is a vote for the other side. in november 2010. don't waste your vote next time.

[applause] the second thing that we have that is probably -- not probably, that is even more powerful right now than the vote is our voice. our voices. that is what we have that is powerful. this is what congressmen and senators will experience when they hold a town hall meetings, if they have the courage to do so. some of them, especially democrats, are canceling town hall meetings, because they are scared. they say it in the country way 0 ,"scared." they cannot stand in front of their constituency and ecologica -- they cannot give a logical

argument on why they are supporting health care legislation. so they are not showing up or they tried to control it to the point where people cannot get an opportunity to ask questions and voiced frustrations. many of you may be members of organizations on your campus. you may be members of some other national conservative organizations. we have plenty of them. my message to you is this, be a member of something where your voice can be expressed selectively, regularly, frequently, and loudly. that is what we have, not just on election day, that is what we have every day of the year in between election days. i believe the voices of the people of this country are being heard, which is why we have been able to slow this socialist

express down. your voices. your voices. if you don't have your favorite conservative organization that you are able to express your voice through right now, this is a shameless promotional plug from mine. it is called the intelligent thinker is movement. you can find it at herman cain.com. there is a link called hitm. i wanted to call with the intelligence think this movement, but my staff said you have to put another letter in front of itm. so they said to put an h in front of it. so it stands for herman lator

intelligent thinker is movement. check it out. you need to be aligned with some organization that can express your voice and my voice collectively, frequently, regularly, and loudly. that is what is causing the liberals to retreat on health- care legislation. i spoke earlier about how they will change the subject. since we did not to drink kool- aid about the 50 million people not having held insurance, they have changed the strategy now. let's go after the insurance industry. let's demonize the insurance industry. let's demonize the insurance companies. we did not fall for it. so now they have a new strategy that they will try to explain to the people. isn't it ironic that they are

not questioning the wrongheadedness of what they are trying to do. they just assume its it is a foregone conclusion that they have to do this. the american people are screaming at the top of their voice, we don't want socialized medicine in the united states of america. screaming it. so, on health care, they have changed the subject. instead of talking about all the chronically uninsured out there that cannot get access, which is a lie, cannot get insurance, and now they are going to shift it to talk about let's demonize the health insurance industry. they have changed the subject. how about ignoring the facts? canada, england, germany, and

other countries, fact, all of the country's that put in government controlled health care, eventually led to rationing. no country on the planet, in the history of the world has ever been able to avoid rationing when the government took it over. but they are ignoring that fact. they don't even want to talk about that fact. they simply choose to ignore it. but then it is up to us to basically make people up and say have you noticed that it did not work in these other countries?

facts. social security is a mess. fact, medicare is a mess. medicaid is a mess. fact, the prescription drug plan was passed in 2004 by republicans. the original cost was estimated to be about $300 billion. before the ink dried, they realized that it would probably be over $500 billion. before they issued the first prescription, the cost estimates were close to $900 billion. those are facts.

not one program run by the government in this country has ever hit the estimated cost, including "cash for clunkers." these are the same people that want to take over our health care. [applause] i don't edget it. whether they are talking a trillion or 1.5 trillion, it will never hit the number. that is a fact. they like to ignore the facts. i am happy that you are here, because that means you are engaged and involved. keep up the fight. we are not going to surrender. we're not going to surrender. i know there are times when you get frustrated and you cannot do all what you want to do, you

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just look inside and you'll find just what you can do." the power of one begins with believing that you hold the key to all of your achievements. conservatives are not going to surrender. thank you. thank you. [cheers] thank you very much. thank you, thank you, thank you. i think i will come back. thank you very much.

yes, ma'am. >> i am haley from cincinnati. i don't know if you have listened to maddie, but it is urban and the verse. i think president obama went there because it is racially diverse and a lot of minorities feel like the conservative party is the white people. it's a big deal in ohio. what would you say to us to tell people who deale we are a white man's party? >> arm yourselves with the facts first. that starts with being able to point out to people a little bit about the history of the republican party and how so many blacks and minorities went to the democratic party. they collected the credit for passage of the civil rights act of 1964. in fact, it took republicans and democrats to pass the civil rights act of 1964 off as well

as the voting rights act of 1965. the republicans did a terrible job of getting their fair share of credit for making that happen. i always go back to how the republican party got started. a lot of people don't know about it. especially minorities. abraham lincoln said i cannot get these silly way to go along with me about getting rid of slavery, so i'm going to start a new party. that is how the republican party started. at the beginning of the 1900's, the first 50 years, the majority of blacks or african-americans were republicans. the clan was started -- the koga clan-- the kkk was started by democrats. you should on yourselves about today's issues like the tax code and how it is more

regressive on poor people than on rich people. don't fall for the rhetoric of class warfare. that is all that it is. arm yourself with the facts. so that when you get an opportunity -- the republican party, generally speaking, has done a terrible job of getting its conservative message out. tony said the same thing. i was talking to rod in the back. the more you are yourselves with the facts and history and be able to explain some of these issues like i talked-about health care, also cap and trade, then you will gradually get to these people. first of all, you will not save everybody. save the ones that you can save. thank you. >> i think you could be our next black president. >> you are very kind. yes, sir. >> i commend you on your courage

and your conviction. >> thank you. look at this room. you have a lot more courage than a lot of folks. what are you talking about? we have some work to do. >> as a black conservative, what more can i do -- i have called into the glenn baceck show and i had an op-ed. what more can i do as a person of moral authority to expose those who owned slavery and segregation and social institutions, the party that owns it.

like you said, the kkk and margaret sanger. and now has selected the biggest trojan horse to the highest office in the land, how do i get justice? >> do more of what you are doing like being here. there are radical ups. take some of your friends with you there. if you take them to an environment they would not normally go to. -- there are rotary clubs you can take your friends to. speaking opportunities, especially you walking into an environment where they may not look like you and you take some of your friends with you, you have an opportunity to get themselves awakened.

>> a couple of weeks ago one of my callers named mitchell called to say he often disagreed with me on a lot of things but he agreed with me on more things than he disagreed. he said he was black and voted for barack obama. he said he regrets that he did. more and more of them are starting to wake up to the conservative party. >> do you think i'm right by attacking the race factor? i am an american. i don't like race being put into it. >> don't attack that person. when i ran for the u.s. senate, i ran for office in georgia in 2004 for the u.s. senate as a republican in georgia. look at me. georgia, republican. guess what, i finished an

impressive second. not just seconds, an impressive second. you don't ever just finished second. georgia has 159 counties. i went to every one of them to campaign. i would walk into rooms that all white. people with their arms folded because they could not believe a black guy was running statewide in the state of georgia. by the time i left, arms or open, smiles on their faces, because i never brought up race. i talked about the issues. that we need to eliminate the tax code and what we need to do about things. i went after the issue. here's what we need to do to stimulate the economy. you lead with solutions to the big issues. that is how you get the message across. lead with solutions. what is your name? >> jerome. >> i have some solutions at

hermancain.com. >> kevin burns from the university of dallas. i read an article about how certain minorities are seen as traders of their race if they are conservatives and if they oppose a rsocial programs. whehow can we combat the assumpn that is brought by the mainstream media that all minorities are democrats? >> basically, ignore it. don't fan it. it is easy for them to take something like that and generalize. i know a lot of black people that did not vote for barack obama. so they tried to use intimidation and they make blanket statements about if this person or not hispanic, they would be working for fox news.

so i ignore that kind of stuff. you're not going to save everybody. save the ones that are saveable. you can say, here's a guy who is conservative and his black and his name is herman cain. yes, i get some brief from some of my friends, but most of them don't give me any grief because they know that i am firm in my convictions. that is how you combat it. stay firm in your convictions. >> thank you. >> my name is melissa harris representing the university of louisiana regions. it is sad that everyone pays so much attention to barack obama when alan keyes was completely ignored. >> yes. >> i would like to ask, do you have a podcast on your radio show that we can access somehow? >> yes.

i can go one even better. if you go to my website, there is a link called besto of herman cain audio and video. click on that and we have a collection of some videos and features i have done, as well as some of my best radio shows. if you go to the homepage of my soul, you can podcasts as well. the answer is yes. also there are some you can click on and listen to right there on the computer. make sure you have speakers on your computer. we have a best of section that i think you'll enjoy. >> hello. steven lynsey from princeton. going off of what kevin just ask, after witnessing an early '90's the ordeal of black conservatives such as clarence

thomas, why do you feel so many african-americans still are not resentful of the liberal african-american establishment being hostile toward the freedoms -- >> you have more conservative blacks than you realize. for a lot of them, it is easier to be below the radar than to be flying above the radar. i am just all out here. i cannot hide, but that is okay. the good thing in my case is every night five nights a week i get a 50,000 watt megaphone so i can speak with 250,000 people. bring it on. they want to harass me, go ahead. there are a lot more of them that are conservative, but they are keeping a low profile. i go to church in savannah, ga., a baptist church.

-- atlanta, georgia. we have 1400 members. there are a few white people in this church of 99% black. a few friends of mine say, i heard a radio show, i agree with you. they're whispering this. if they are trying to avoid the intimidation they may get. not everybody has the strength of character to say, if you disagree with me, fine, i'm not going to this appeal. >> if that is the case, voting in this country has done enough with the secret ballot. no one would know how you are voting. why do the statistics prove so many of them of-- >> when people to exit polls, they don't always tell the truth. they don't know who is going to be looking at it.

they may say they voted for barack obama but they might not have. i question the accuracy of the exit polls. if some stranger walks up and ask who you voted for. people get nervous. they don't know what will happen to the information. >> thank you. >> charlotte evans. richmond college in wisconsin. -- agilent college. if i go to your web site, [unintelligible] >> yes, thank you, darling. there is a photo link. you click on it and i have two shots of me. one is my business attire that you see me in right now. the other one is me with my

radio cowboy hat on. take your pick, darling. thank you so much. you are very kind. @@@@@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ åz ignoring the facts in tennessee. tennessee has a similar program. they are ignoring the results

in massachusetts. they choose to ignore the facts. it is that simple. i did not even know about the one in wisconsin. >> it is there anything to do to increase awareness? >> yes, make sure that you are affiliated with some organization in your state that can express your voice on a regular basis. indeed to be able to do that in state and nationally. >> i love you. >> thank you. aw, shucks. >> i met georgia perimeter college, political science major. >> georgia. that's great. >> i've been working on a gubernatorial campaign in the state. in the georgia republican party, states' rights are becoming a big issue. what part do you think the states' rights and state sovereignty has played in the conservative movement, maintaining popularity in the

nation as a whole? >> most recently it has played a big role. i hope it continues, because the more states that send a signal back to washington that we can insert -- can exert states' rights are a signal we need to send. most recently, that has picked up in activity. some states are going back to the 10th amendment, saying the 10th amendment says this, but that does not give you the right to impose this on us. 34 states have already passed legislation to that effect. when you get to that misstates willing to say to washington, we don't have to take some of these programs, that could change things. >> thank you. >> university of chicago. joseph. god bless you. we have talked a lot about politics and race. the republican party has forgotten its focus on

minorities and has written off the whole demographic of the african american community. mostly african-americans had been voting for democrats. now that the democrats have put a new set of strains on people, people may start noticing republicans are doing so much for folks like school choice and payroll taxes. if i have the guts in chicago to go out in the community. i volunteer. i don't see any volunteers that are conservatives out there. that discourages me. there are no conservatives at the center that michelle obama started. these are my positions, i'm a republican, i go out to tell my position. i'm sure you have been called an old, along with other black conservatives.

>> that's right. >>-- >> that you have been calld an uncle tom. >> if you are armed and courageous. don't just at random though do a particular part of town. you could become a statistic. i would not even do that. [laughter] but i am saying be persistent. remember, we can save the saveable. the latest statistics shows you have a third of the people and a third of the voters -- the ones that don't vote, don't worry about them right now -- a third of the voters, less than a third -- it is in the 20's of people considering themselves liberal. the number of people who consider themselves

conservatives are about the mid 30% of them. the remainder consider themselves independent. those are the people you go after. but remain persistent. >> penn state. thank you for speaking. >> before you go on, i hate to do this. we have five people. how many people? 5. ok. everybody gets a minute with the question and/or the answer. in five minutes i have to go catch an airplane. >> about the fairtax, i love the fairtax. when i tried to talk about it even to conservatives, they don't get it. how do you recommend telling people what the fairtax is? >> if you go to buy websites, i have written the abc's of the fairtax. i have taken every letter of the

alphabet and given an attribute of the fairtax. that is an easy way to get people going. print a copy of that. it is on my radio show page. start with the abcs. then you hav -- the abc's. i got the same question from a caller. go back to the abc's. >> owen from ole miss. you mentioned at one time a vote -- not to vote for your guy is like a vote for the other guy. i am proud to say i voted for bob barr.

i felt disillusioned that both parties needed a message from us. you mentioned we did use our voice and our vote. do you feel it is important to use your voice and your vote not just to send a message to one party, but to vote and send a message to both parties? >> some republicans are starting to say that we heard you. rev. wanda bynum-duckett. tony perkins said the same thing. it is i-- it is important to give your vote. your conservative representatives need you to go support them. they need to know you support them. it is important to send a message to both parties. >> my name is stephanie

hernandez from lone star community college. thank you for being here and for the animated speech. >> you're welcome. >> i don't support any of obama's health care reforms. i realized he is using the uninsured to bolster his policies. as someone who has been uninsured and the fact that there are people uninsured in the country, including the 9.5 million with no long-term health care, could you tell me if there could be changes in health care policy that do not involved taxing people were taking money away? also, any conservative ideals? >> the first three things i would do, you never hear about this because the mainstream media don't want you to hear the proposals on the other side. first, level the playing field in terms of who owns their

insurance. that has prevented new products from coming to market. the employers take a deduction, but if you buy yourself, you cannot take a deduction. as a result, if -- perspective of who bought it, a tax reduction under the current system, that lowers the cost for people who who would be able to go buy it themselves. second, i would allow group health plans across state lines. right now you cannot do it across state lines. what if all the barbers in america wanted to have a barbarous health insurance program? they cannot do it because of the rules. remove the barriers. but in washington they call them association held plans. that is another thing you can do. if the third thing i would do, if they are so concerned about making health insurance affordable for people who chronically don't have it, allow

them to buy a policy to participate in medicare. at least they would have something. they don't offer that because then they would have to defend the deficiencies in medicare. here's the fourth idea, if you want to help the people that do not have it chronically for whatever reason, what do we do with people who cannot buy enough food? we give them food stamps. this office as give them the health insurance voucher. first make tax deductibility the same for the individual as it is for the employer. those are four quick steps off the top of my head. .

>> go to the town hall meetings and take as many of your friends that you want. it does not have to turn into a shouting match. i can assure you that that -- there were probably 25 others that did not get into a shouting match. but the mainstream media want to try to help marginalize what is going on. just continue to go, state your case and go on with the facts. i wrote a commentary, guess where you can find it? [laughter] very good, you are paying attention.

i wrote a commentary entitled " seven ways to make health care better." i wrote another one that said " seven questions that president obama and the democrats cannot answer." you get those two when you put to a town hall meetings and that will give you structured. -- when you go to the town hall meetings. go and go in big numbers. last question. >> my name is erica from houston, texas. i was ecstatic to hear that you ran for office. i was wondering if he were considering doing that again. in 2010, democrats stated they want to make a case and have president obama speak. i was wondering if you could say you are speaking as well. >> yes. [laughter] [applause] bring him on. contact my office. i tell you what -- let me answer

the second one first. yes, i would consider coming for any event in houston, as well as to a lot of them, but it is all based on availability. if the president will try to draw a crowd, if you guys want to put something together, and when you guys -- when i come to speak i will not need a teleprompter. [applause] i promise, and i will not need a teleprompter. the answer to your first question, have i considered running again? this is the honest truth, i am still praying about it because i believe in the power of prayer. [applause] i do believe in the power of prayer. the last time i ran for office i had to pray about it. this is a beauty about the power of prayer, when you pray about it and you know in your heart that is something you are

supposed to do, you never looked back. i don't regret running even though i came in second, but i am still praying about when and if i am supposed to run again. thank you very much. you contact my office. i would love to be down there for that. let me leave you all with this. all of you all are much younger than i am, at that is obvious, but let me assure you that what you are doing can and will make a difference. one of the lessons i learned from the president of morehouse college when i was a student, he >> he constantly reminded us that no matter how old you are to always keep in mind as you are on your life's journey, as you are trying to make a different -- and we all put here to make a difference -- remember