>> and so what would your central message be to all those egalitarians? >> the central message would be reconsider your position. that is to say maybe you are supporting institutions that actually do a worse job in promoting the values. when you compare to feasible alternatives. >> we've been speaking with professor daniel shapiro at west virginia university and his boat "is the welfare state justified?." thank you do ..

>> >> this is a good space to be in. i have the incredible honor to visit the reagan ranch and to be among the things of his life. and it is just wonderful. it is a great energy that i get. that i got from that. too just come ensure that in the context of his legacy and certainly would it means

for us going forward is a real honor. i appreciate the young america's foundation invited me here to be a part of this. we have spent a lot of time over the years working with the various groups that come into washington or visitor of the country with such important to work. i was struck before coming down nothing fancy come on the wall beyond america foundation committed to encouraging this year and american to the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, a free enterprise and traditional values. that is such a powerful servant -- statement and it is part of the underlying thinking that i try to capture in the book "right

now." lot of people are hype doubt about the book and i don't understand why. it is to some of the core things that we believe and as conservatives and republicans and speaks to them in the context of reagan but most importantly in the context of how we regain the trust in the american people. if you have not figured are right now, the people are not too happy with us and have good reason. bed is part of the past and part of also the process of healing and recovery. i took on the idea of 12 step because i think it is an important part to get to recovery. that is the background for our will get into more but first i do want to thinks 24 per sponsorship of the speaker series of 2010 with a wonderful gift to the

community in america to have the voices come through here. get out there so people can see and hear what conservatism is send it to defer century and what we face with the challenges and opportunities. she is not here but i want to think for publicly for her support of this series and her work with the foundation. survey for the members of the president's club and the rawhide circle. i will not even go there. but i think of that that means is something completely different. [laughter] it is usually after what you have after your mother is done the spanking new. [laughter] it works. also to the president of the america foundation and andrew was a great guy this

morning hoping me to get there and it was raining and started to hail and it was perfect. [laughter] it was perfect. i have since thought that president reagan was speaking to me just to let you know, the cloudy days may be a part of what you do but the sun does come out. when it does you have to be prepared. that has been my experience in public life. dealing with the clouds, noise, floods and crazy stuff but knowing the sun will come out and things will get better. i was always struck by the quote when you live in interesting times ended now get much more interesting than what i saw over the past year. a friend pointed out that was a curse. i can see how that would be

the case. but the reality is living in interesting times enables us are empowers us to do interesting things and allows us to go beyond our comfort zone and go beyond the things that we think we know to explore new avenues and opportunities. since we're living in interesting times we thought it would be important to set the tone different race who that it was once noted the cory and conflict i am here after exulted in victory. i have always liked that. i'd like to primarily because as a roman catholic african american conservative from washington d.c. [laughter] my whole life has been conflict. i get the part of it. i really do.

but today, in this hour what complex us is not the ups and downs but the very nature of conservatism in the post reagan era. what complex us is the version -- mission of the movement and the radical nature and unique challenges and opportunities that come from conflict and victory. and you have seen that played out in small measure over the last few years, certainly the elections of 2006, 2008 and virginia, new jersey and massachusetts. but no great thing has ever been achieved without overcoming obstacles and no -- nine is more important than to press on through adversity or persevere. so we have these interesting times where we have to confront conflict in order to obtain victory. we must persevere.

we must find a way to make all of this fit and all of this work. the first thing i noticed about perseverance is it comes more easily to the optimistic as a young man i was struck by ronald reagan signed wavering optimism and a sense of hope. for in the that sense of the best days lie before us was caught in the phrase morning in america. that was 1984. but people have now come to believe it is more like lunchtime in america. or even dinner. in other words, our best best-- are behind us, the sun is setting, the day is done. as the young african-american male growing up in our nation no -- nation's capital understands me the power of perseverance.

and to put into focus that we are often touched and indeed a move to action by the great figures of history, but by those whose names are not written in the history books, the names that don't appear on the nightly news, but the names of individuals who live in our neighborhoods and communities and in our homes. such is the life of me bell. she is one of faces in america struggling to raise a family thinking she could provide for her kids more than she had received. she was up a simple begin writing the history of this country, and not in the history books, but instead on the parts and consciousness of the individual and community. so the promise of this great nation would become its troops.

she gripped the daughter of sharecroppers, had to quit school when she was in fifth grade to work in the cotton fields of south carolina. married a man who abused her mentally and physically. and he would die at the age of 36 from the call is some. she would work in a laundromat for the next 45 years of her life the most she ever made rose $3.83 per hour. despite the hardships from limited resources and limited opportunity, but maybelle had an extraordinary sense of the of -- the possible. she did what it took to stimulate the economy of for household and make sure despite all part chips things that needed to be done raising kids and providing for the family got done. she made certain as she put it that it would be she and not the government who raised her kids.

it is she who would provide for her family, not the government and did a pretty good job. because today her daughter is a very successful pediatrician and her son stands before you as the chairman of the republican national committee. [applause] the power of maybelle is what we witness every single day. that is what we fear the most write no. stripping away that power right now from maybelle come without power she feels she has to raise your kids the way she wants to provide for her family, stripping that away from her is why the fight right now in this

country for freedom, opportunity, the very thing that this organization is trying to impress to understand about the free markets and free enterprise and value of family and community matters. may bill's life embodies perseverance the struggles and challenges will hold opportunity for her children. while her story like so many contain hardships we're also finding a way to turn her hopes for her children into action. her desire that tomorrow will be better for us and four per cent more than anything else. she made sure her kids knew the value of hard work both in school and in the workplace and made sure we could think for ourselves and make sure we have a good education, we knew right from wrong. she had us in church on sunday and in the classroom

on monday and understood the value of america and the future of her kids. through the remarkable example of her life my mother first shot me about physical discipline, budgeting come with value of the dollar and how thoughtful investment coupled with harvard can provide opportunity. lord knows why those individuals and united states congress cannot figure out what they sharecropper curl out with a fifth grade education figured out a long time ago how to create wealth within a family or a community. pro her bank account may not have made her rich, she was rich with purpose and every of way found a day to put her hopes interaction. maybelle was never discouraged because she knew the trials would pass and she was in it for the long haul. she would work it out.

that is the power of perseverance. i remember as a young boy at 17, 1976, the first time i can go to in november, i am trying to decide to want to be a republican nor a democrat? my mom is a democrat she is a roosevelt democrat. my dad is a democrat. she raised me to appreciate i had a mind that i could go out and learn and decide for myself what i wanted to me and she pressed me hard. told the democrats just because ibm. don't fall lockstep into a mine said just because others. she has instilled a sense of independence the wonder why i get so much trouble in this job, of blame maybelle. [laughter] because the independent spirit allowed me to go for a man named ronald reagan

and it was his voice i heard that sounded like the way my mother raised me. when he talked about an america that would be better, when he talked about opportunities in the power that comes from individuals, not from government, i have decided to become a republican. [laughter] the jt's of going out but the actual doing of it however. [laughter] was a whole nother conversation. why did you want to go do that? [laughter] even to this day there are moments where she is trying to recover from that and get me back. but she understands and she still understands why i did what i did, because of how she raised me and what she passed on, that legacy per

car movie appreciate that legacy more than anything else. there is a great moment in 2006 when i was running for the united states senate election night sitting on the edge of my bed with my wife and it starts off great we have been there you're looking at the numbers and you are 5248, but then the rest of the precincts come in and you think that is a little different. i am watching all of the hard work and the election slip through my fingers in the united states senate i am frustrated, angry. my wife is sitting next to be very quietly and patiently taking it in and listening to me. after several brands it is clear i will not to be the next senator from their land i turned to her and say what do i do now? spell is out ways to put things into perspective.

she said well, i think you have better get a job. [laughter] that is it? [laughter] and then she got up and left. and there i sapped by better get a job. but what i took out of that moment is what my mother had taught. i learned in listening to reagan, my wife brought home to me in a very real way, persevere. this too shall pass. get through it. don't too be overwhelmed by it or let it bring you down were you cannot get up. and as i reflected on this book i wrote it on the 2008

election got under way way, because of publication delays, it turned out god works in mysterious ways it could have been updated to capture the reality of the 2009 elections but the core of the book focused on the idea of a party beat down and have lost its way and a party that have fallen away from conservative principles , but now faced with an opportunity to move forward and not be overwhelmed by the circumstances. ronald reagan understood the importance of connecting to the maybelle of america, the themes that inspired us or restored the strings of pride and prosperity in the nation did the unthinkable. he helped america embrace conservatism, the core beliefs of the conservative movement in made it cool to be a conservative.

and that opportunity afforded to him, enabled him to change the course of the nation, to put it on a pathway in which it depreciated prosperity and opportunity and appreciated our role of the world and our fight for freedom. not just here but from abroad. since then america has changed. but what we believe has not. in the words of austin powers reno have the opportunity to get our mojo back. [laughter] to be relevant in this time to engage in the debate of the big ideas and fight for those principles in a way that empowers the maybelle of the world because they know someone is standing there helping them provide for the next generation.

third bird marshall was said we all need to pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps. but every wants in a while it is nice to have somebody been down and help us out. that is what reagan understood that if we follow the principles of freedom and independence everyone's a while somebody will be there to help you. and lift you up. not do it for you, but sure you out and give you the tools. in the times the remitted right now, what is the cry for the american people? don't do it for us. give us the tool for us to do it for ourselves whether health care over job creation whatever happens to be weak hear that we can do

this on our own. individually we are strong to gather we are stronger. but in all of that is not government's job or its role to shape that outcome or create that pathway. negative a conservatives now have the opportunity to reaffirm to the american people that were believe it should be limited so it never becomes powerful enough to infringe on the rights of the individuals. the taxes that we pay be kept close of individuals might keep more of the hard earned money. that business regulation should be kept for development and growth as opposed to using those to be to businesses into submission. some just talk about change, but what we believe and what we know about the resilience of the american

people, double underscore the real change this nation needs, the individual that will stand america up, and individuals that will help america prosper, the individual, that will keep us strong. our work is not done. but in some respects and many respects our work begins a new, not in the sense of starting over but starting with a different perspective, 21st century perspective how we make the hopes of tomorrow by a reality today. you heard hope is on the way. keep hope alive. hope to have a nice day. [laughter] but there comes a part were hope does not get it done. there comes a time where action is the core of what must happen. and that action is what worries people.

government action? individual action? that is the debate that this nation faces right now. produce see the results of massachusetts or virginia and new jersey as examples of the american people answering the question, there are many more opportunities for that question to be answered over the next few years. not in partisan terms, but truly american terms. what is this great nation all about? what is the strength and where does it come from? it is one of the gibson ronald reagan i believe left us when he described the nation the way he did as a signing 60 on the hill because one of the aspects of fact, it is the light that emanates from the hill is a powerful lights. where does it come from?

not because of government, but because of her people. that light emanates from the hill from the people. the difference between prosperity and poverty is not government. it is people. the difference between ownership and control by government, it is people. not government. and ronald government put that into his pre-size of a context as he possibly could. like reagan, when i was 17, and today, i put my faith in people, not government. and the promise of america it is of endless possibilities and then that spirit that drew me and to the party that i now share. it is that spirit that

recognizes individuals as the catalyst some action point*, not government. i think for future bytes what the role and control of government will be about it it enables us to persevere and tells us not to give up on ourselves are certainly not from this great country. next year our nation will celebrate the centennial of president reagan's birth in between now and then we have the opportunity to reignite the vision of america and to remind ourselves and the nation it is morning again in america bright with possibilities, morning of the day the representing the rest our lives. as a nation. reagan said it better than i could when he said we have got to quit talking to each other and about each other

and go out and communicate to the world that we may be fewer in numbers than we have ever been. but we carry the message they are waiting for. this is your time. this is our moment. to carry the message america is waiting for. to be the light of this great nation once again and to lift up the begin, the grand wacky wonderful experiment we call the united states. and to do it in a way in which reagan would be proud and he would expect no less of us appear to be his legacy and what he led behind to do today. right now is our moment. right now is the opportunity for us to be something better. different profiles faugh but

very familiar. and different and that is the test. are you ready to pass the test and do what is necessary to hold the light of once again and show america and show the world it is morning? thank you. [applause] thank you very much. i guess we have some q&a. the fun part of the program. >> i just want to thank you for coming. my hope is that we celebrate

the demand because it is that global heart that chopped the wood and cleaned the credits it did not see himself as president of united states. and we just want a huge election and we want it because of our people, myself saw an arrogant democratic party. the reason we have the air again democratic party because we had an air again republican party. i would love to see how that will change with our party. >> so what i. [laughter] but i believe it has. and the nature of some folks in washington that the way i started to answer that question will be news.

because there are those that don't want that change and those who like to wallow in the muck of past accomplishments are what they believe is in past accomplishments and you have heard the phrase before, the will of the people. but it is a real thing. and you have seen it expressed very, very proud to taste of the in three elections. my sense is that in large measure many republicans and conservatives are out there are working toward the same goal and looking back and understanding past mistakes but not beating ourselves up to the point* we cannot move forward to understanding in order to afford to have to acknowledge and accept the role you may have played in some of the things.

the commitment that the american people are looking for i am sure you feel as well isn't this a war with the different? show us how or tell us how. that is a very unique opportunity and not too many political parties or candidates get a chance to do that to go back to the american people how they have it in this stepped in the past but what is expected of leadership that contract with america in 1994 meant something and it still means something today. when they saw bill wholesale march away from those principles outlined and the ideals laid out in that document, people took it personally. has a thick kid started to reject the very things you raise them to believe to

help them understand and made that commitment to them and them to you that this is part of our family so that sense of rejection was very strong and still is for a lot of folks. my hope is certainly the world i try to engage with the leadership around the country in his and to understand and let's move forward with their new perspective of how we ring gauge with the american people and restore the faith and trust in the leadership and their like what i am seeing so far and there are better opportunities that lie ahead. hold on to that faith and don't let go. keep everyone on this. because you don't get second chances often in politics. and i think the american

people are giving us a nervous second chance to really engage them and stand again of the principles that can define us for generations and that is a good thing. >> , also like to thank you for visiting as my name is robert olson. i am from up the coast. the results of the recent elections, i am more optimistic than i have been since probably the 2004 election. many people were so concerned that we will become overconfident and complacent and so many people are already declaring the next congress after the election as ours. so what can we do as the leader of our party to make

sure that we maintain our edge and don't let it over confidence lead to something we don't want in november? >> that is a good question. i got in trouble because maybelle raise me to be very pragmatic, honest, i tend to tell people exactly what i think which i have learned people do not necessarily want you to do. [laughter] nor do they want to hear it but of course, that does not stop me so that is somebody else's problem but not mine. i really believe that this november we will do incredibly well with those who were already in the being and how that ends yet but there are where we don't

have a declared candidate at all. there are still a lot of factors. i do not want to put the cart before the horse and make declarations i cannot back up. somebody told me you are the party chairman you should be the cheerleader. i said no. i do not look good in the script or the white pants. my job is to be the leader. and to be honest and thoughtful and deliver it and lay out a strategy that will achieve the goals that people want to win elections and help the party became the footing with the american people. you cannot just like the way what happened in 2006 salacious 2008. that was then a repudiation of normal course it was outright rejection by the american people i know firsthand.

i was a candidate in 2006. i know that first hand. so don't just get upset and say they don't love us. no. if you're listening, they are telling you very clear it is in both of your house is. if you do not understand but this is about. [applause] if you do not understand our frustration and anger, if we do not understand that and do not know what this is about for them, we are doomed to make the same mistakes and repeat those and that is not something i want us to do. i am very excited working very hard to get good candidates and an enormous sense of the opportunity ahead of us. every day work to achieve the goals in states after

state and to bring principal conservative leadership to the french and leading with that an interesting in the american people like what they see and hear. so far we are three/o. that pragmatic approach works and doing what is necessary on the ground to lay the groundwork for those candidates to run for them to take that through the national media who have a whole separate agenda. that is part of my responsibility that i try to uphold everyday just because i am not out here doing every single moment that is not what you want you want somebody looking down the road looks at the real opportunities and going towards those in seizing the opportunities we can get the wind.

at the end of the day if we have more than restarted, that is good but we are a very different ball game than two years ago or four years ago there is a lot of hard work to be done. but when we get it i want us to keep it and not lose it again. >> my name is bernanke. i almost feel that i asked for the microphone too soon begin issue answered the biggest concern that i have to rethink what happened in massachusetts needs to register with the republicans because they did not win this. the independents won it. i am from massachusetts originally and i know what drives that state and certainly is not republican policies.

[laughter] i think it was a wonderful thing that happened and you put your finger on something come with the people in this country have said they're not happy with the democrats or republicans and if the republicans behave like the past the recent election means nothing prepare reading the "wall street journal" a few days ago there was an article that talked-about how the american people were disgusted with politics and the message i got out of that article said the republican party has an opportunity to rally around a central theme of term limits to get those people with professional politicians not interested in what happens to us the

polygraph, bipartisanship that does not exist anymore. the partisan nonsense where would have to% of a party goes in one direction and the other goes the other direction. something is wrong with that philosophically. you as a leader have to hammer that home so the people that are running and i happen to be a republican in by default also down to a socialist and communist. [laughter] [applause] i sincerely hope the message got across. [applause] >> there are a number of points i could start with on that when.

you are absolutely right. i think the "wall street journal" is a good one that we do have the opportunity here unlike any that we have seen for crowed not just about term limits but a lot of things. starting with what do you believe then and what will you fight for? what will you do? how was at different from what they are doing or what they believe needs to be done? for us, that is a unique spot to be in. going back to the earlier point* you did not get a second chance is too often. the american people are looking at us saying it is here is a second chance. show me something different. show me something i have not seen before do not expect because what i have seen up

until now is not what i want. and i go back to my point* might opportunity as chairman is to galvanize within the core of the party grass-roots activist men and women who believe as i do what this fight is about and what we can do as republicans, as part of a broader conservative movement in the country must do. 40% are now itself identified as conservative. that is a big number and age of obama, that is significant. particularly you go back and look at the results of the 2018 election and not thought those people were self identified by what happened? they began to see policies unfold, decisions on health

care and how to deal with the economy. jobs. and they realize i am a little more conservative than i thought i was because i don't want any of that. said now we have a chance to come in and fill in the blanks based on principles that are foundational. we should be free so wealth is created not only for government but democrats grassroots so invested and saved by individuals within the community. so here he came go build the business and hire my son when he gets done off of the academic year in the summertime. [laughter] that is what this is about. if we lose that will then ton being generated by the likes of bob mcdonnell and chris christie, new jersey? we won the new jersey for goodness sakes then you have the slingshot up at

massachusetts. we honest. i don't even have to go back one year, i can go back one month and died that 90% of the people in this room would not have predicted tuesday's outcome. massachusetts a nice try. god bless him. [laughter] that you had a candidate that did not give up because he believes something he brought that to the table and shared it with the people of the massachusetts said what they are doing now is not good for you. to be accountable as a leader when i go to washington. number two, but i am going to washington and i am taking you with me. very different conversation

that is our moment we are the parties are are not afraid to account any more prickly want to be held accountable and when we go lead we want you with us because you have our faith in the business and the people not the government. that is very powerful to make this into this question will allow us to achieve the goal to take control of the congress this year if the people have the faith in us that when we get it we will do the right thing. >> chairman thank you for being with us today. my name is chris and i am a student at pepperdine. along the same lines of communicating with americans and getting them to understand our principles, most people would agree that the republican party has trouble

communicating our ideas. i came up with something very simple to pitch to the american people which i think goes perfectly, the number one comely respect everybody no matter what race or religion or creed parker number two, you are responsible for your actions including accountability, free markets and reward. that is the mayor can dream and i think what we agree on is what made america strong. what you have to pitch to the american people a simple marketing strategy that would say this is what made america strong? we are the party of the american people? >> look at that camera because you just did. [laughter]

[applause] you just did. >> what we have to realize is that i have a title. "this is it" write here. i am the chairman do not sit down and tell the chairman says sit down. but we look around and look to someone else who is in leadership to the and the one lesson that i learned is a course i have been on since a young man and then time i have spent to reflect on it leadership. this is how i leave i am prepared to the but never afraid to follow. a true leader is someone who was never afraid to follow

someone else's idea. someone else's leadership because what happens is people see that and they say while. they are getting over leadership control to someone else and that is powerful and something that reagan did so well were he recognized and others their ability to lead in this moment. he did not have the answers or pretended to. quite frankly i don't think he wanted to have all of that answer is because that the ads to something else not very good. he trusted others and their ideas of the fact you stood up the fact you made out ideas is the third step but now to convey to rebels the validity and important avoided is you are trying to do buyer nature, youth and

experience all of those come into play and empower them. to trust you because you are willing to step up and step out and say i have ideas. yes we can do that but the question is how do you do you talk about and put it in a way so others can follow on college campuses were among your friends? that is for the opportunity lies. folks look at young republicans and say can you come over on saturday and licks stands in do door knocking? that is great but you do not have to ask permission to the. you are a part of write now. when they say you're the future, and do you are not. you are the "right now" because of we don't recognize "right now" would you can do with your deiter schiff, we will lose. we will not regain the strength we had in the past

two the because it is your generation making a difference in this time. if you don't believe me, how do get a barack obama as president? he struck a chord and inspired a generation to getting gauge for the first time but now what is happening? the kool-aid is wearing off. [laughter] they're waking up and seeing unemployment is at 30%. i cannot get a job. the prospects of paying for college is dimming and the realities are hitting home they have never seen double-digit inflation or gas lines for unemployment or the future that we know is passed. and they are about to confront that and it will be somebody like you that will guide them through that. that is what i want you to know that you are empowered and the fact you can kneecaps allies in the three

latter are for your generation to appreciate what this grand old party is about, will enable you to help us make us the grand new party that embraces not just the past and the legacy of great men and women like ronald reagan, but the future of the individuals like you. >> that is very encouraging. thank you. [applause] excuse me he put his hand up three times. >> i have a very simple question. video from the rnc in california and senator boxer it is time for her to go. [laughter] [applause] >> amen. [applause] let me say without revealing zero whole lot of strategy because i know our friends are watching, .

[laughter] california will be very important to us this year and we are excited about the prospects of the gubernatorial level and the congressional level legislatively all folks have been focusing on the crazy noise coming out of washington about the republican party who shot who and who picks a fight we have been quietly and methodically building layers and layers of support networks, a grass-roots organizations to be competitive in a lot of races people are not expecting. not just california but around the country. i am tired of the party taking the position we cannot win their so we will not play their. i have told the political operations and all of the other ad toned departments within the rnc that they will be races for everybody

will scratched their head and say why are you over here? you will not win because at some point* ladies and gentlemen, we have to plant the flag and say if we want to compete even if we will get our clock cleaned but we will compete because the people need us to. it is about time that we do that. [applause] test case upstate new york and everybody was focused on new york 23. that was the biggest cluster you know, what i have seen. should not have happened. should not have happened but well folks were focused on the 23 congressional district guess what we did? 312 county executive race is. you may say big deal but some counties are as big as some states in population. that meant whether westchester county where

barack obama lined with 60% of the boat last year or a republican and now runs the county this year because we won the election. the point* is when you go and engage am prepared to compete and go after the ground, you may not get it right now for the next time there will come a point* where you will. where there is california or new york, where perhaps to be where we have not been competitive before our goal now is to be competitive to get good candidate to run and support them to make the investment necessary for them to win. before and nobody would have been a vice to invest in massachusetts or new jersey. because republicans just don't win there but at some point* you have to stop believing the old thinking

and stop doing the old way and take the risk necessary to compete. i am the chairman who is prepared to do that i get the death for that sometimes but that is fine. throw rocks and stones at me and hit me again. keep going. that is the goal. it is to put ourselves as a party in a position to be competitive and we will be very competitive in california this year. trust me. trust me. [applause] i ain't you got very much. andrew thank you so much it has been a lot of fun. i enjoyed being here and i enjoyed being in the spirit of bregenz certainly at the reagan library last week and to be here at the ranch this week and to be here with all of you.

it does my heart good and it is so nice to know so many people still give a about this great country and are willing to fight for every day i am honored to be one of those soldiers picked out and chosen to go down a particular pass to do my best to make sure we can wind. god bless you. god bless america. [applause]

>> host: hello. we're here today with professor joseph stiglitz and he has a new book, freefall, that describes the way we got into the current economic crisis, a critique of what has been done, and lays out some of the bigger picture remedies we need to address in our country to move forward to a more stable economy that works for more people. thank you very much for the opportunity to share your book with the folks on the c-span. it is a very interesting reading.