your book to understand how that works. .. , clap. [applause] [applause]

cynic 84 that mortgage deduction and warren introduction before i start my remarks. [laughter] what of privilege to be here just to give you an idea how much president reagan meant to be not only as a young student and a young man and later as congressmen and covered by occupy the fourth floor of the capital there is exactly one portrait one decoration in my office they used to be the home of the supreme court of louisiana my beautiful historical building the original painting of president ronald reagan sitting upright on his horse as a constant reminder of every day why you're here and what we are here to accomplish as we try to turn our state around. it is a great honor to be here in affiliation with the

ronald reagan ranch and young america foundation. we had a tremendous election a few weeks ago and a lot of people have remarked on what this election net by a released my book "leadership and crisis" there was a lot of media attention on the opening anecdote about how president obama came down to his first visit to two weeks after the explosion airforce one landed on the tarmac and he came down the steps and clearly this would not be the usual interaction normally he gets off the briefly talk at the foot of the steps but this would not be normal interaction then he grabbed my arm and pulled me aside. they clearly tipped off washington reporters and said what the president will be angry and mad at the governor it was clear how

they told people to watch this and i could say -- sea was angry may be using bree at the oil where the bureaucracy or the red tape. i was stunned. he was angry because of a routine bureaucratic letter we had sent the day before about food stamps and says to be careful, governor. this will get bad for all of us. his chief of staff rahm emanuel was a to weed out my chief of staff several feet away except he used words high will not repeat up here. [laughter] later as we got into the car with all due respect mr. president we did not criticize about food stamps we are angry about the lack of resources and the plan and the bureaucracy that is getting in the way to fight the oil and i got in a car with my chief of staff is

amazing they seem disconnected from the facts on the ground i don't mind the president being bad. i want him to be mad about the right things. that was the message -- message of the election to say basically you have been focused on the wrong things the people of america want a private sector economy to be growing again good paying jobs to pay their bills and to inherit more opportunities than we inherited but look what is going on in washington we had government bailouts of car companies, the expansion of obamacare seven now the government is so -- more involved with health care and debate issues like cap-and-trade is seems they are focused on everything but the issues they create most about back in the louisiana when i was running for governor i made a promise the people of our state. 25 years we export our

greatest asset. four biggest export is not mardi gras or our shrimp but 25 years our greatest export has been our children. we're the only state in the south where people moving out of the state rather than into the state. to create opportunities for our children and grandchildren. to talk about what we have done and how we have accomplished that it did start jittery 14 on inauguration day i promised we would start to win the war on corruption but our first 30 days was a special session on a six. nine o you're friendly people so you may not be rude enough to say this to my face but you have your own favorite story with a joke mccourt of louisiana

politicians. [laughter] one congressman it's a back home and we see an ad in a given moment half of my people are under water, the other half are under indictment. [laughter] people say that is the louisiana way to do business. those jokes monophony any more over 900 business leaders across the country, tied for first place what we could do to attract investment and jobs was crackdown on corruption as long as who you know, is more important we do not want to invest in your state and we had a special session on us six. when you push the hogs away from the trough they will squeal. [laughter] but we have some of the toughest bills. you have to disclose your income and assets but do not

let the door hit you on the way out. people said they have to choose a few are elected you either have to serve us well yourself. not the foundation of both senate for public integrity today we ranks number one with the entire country. [laughter] >> used to rank in the bottom five now we're in the top five his the creating the conditions of the private sector to grow so we have a a second session it darth about equipment and utilities then have the largest income tax cut in our state's history. why is that important? our states did not have those taxes.

if you don't have the ph.d. if you want to discourage activity, tax it if you don't and don't tax that is my economic philosophy right there. [laughter] why would we tax business is a one to expand in our state? they said the newest equipment was oldest in the oldest equipment we got rid of those taxes as a candidate nine made it clear we're not raising any taxes in the state of louisiana point*. we have done more than cut taxes but spending we have eliminated thousands of government positions and sold off 10% and have privatized services setting real priorities but government should or should not be doing. the reason that was so important we try to get a

letter a grade we have gone up not down but we want them to know there is a predictable pro-growth environment 70% of the company's 12 move or expand telling us the top two concerns is a skilled worker sitting our people are ready to work haul the first day or we will retrain them for free now the top ranked program and continue to improve education now orleans has a higher percentage than any other city with their charter schools or the value assessment act with the student's performance the red tape reduction act the scholarship program to help students in new orleans if they want to go to private and parochial schools to think the dollars we would spend and the rising scores after the storm.

one of the most important things we have done is a teacher's bill of rights why is that importuned? we made strides to improve teacher pay for the first time in a long time but the number one reason teachers tell us they leave the classroom is the environment in the classroom. it is not like when you and i were growing up if you have not been two a classroom recently i will tell you about my childhood. when i got in trouble high big white teachers do what everyone just don't tell my parents. [laughter] hi don't know about your dad i will talk about my dad he had a funny sense of justice. i would say i did not do this the teacher was wrong and say i know you better than that. [laughter] may not have done with the teacher said but i know you got away with something

today. [laughter] rivals bank you for that and called it even. don't worry. [laughter] not wants in my life was i ever right to. but we're not doing any favors we will yell at those teachers when they try to get a jobber into the real world every year you can get the dropout rates and look at the incarceration rates there is almost a direct correlation. literally thousands of people, every year we've rearrest them within five years to limit to break the cycle as education and invest in infrastructure more than the last three administrations combined for the last time point* but louisiana portfolio.com said we have the second boat best performers of the recession in the third best eight to create jobs and also the

most improve state in the country the first time in the top 10 and look at the unemployment rates below the southern and national average every single month the best job performance seven business development says the best per-capita and have tens of thousands billions of dollars of private capital investment we have seen companies move their headquarters into louisiana and expanding and growing, new fortune 500 company and i could tell you more statistics but after 25 years of losing our people for three years in a row we have had more people move to louisiana more quickly than they are leaving. because i think this election two weeks ago was about one very simple profound message people

across america telling our president and congress we don't become the first generation of americans that leaves fewer opportunities for our children and grandchildren than we inherited from our parents. if our kids work hard and play by the rules they should have more opportunities but yet i don't need to go through the numbers, $14 trillion of debt you do not need to look at the government spending now part of the projected growth the historical norms where 18 or 20% the chinese will not buy our debt for ever interest rates will go up in the value will go down a will be glad to see some modest first step the senate republicans say they will go round with the earmark ban but we have to do more than that just like is said to the president he was focused on the are wrong thing because he was mad about a

letter on food stamps the voters are saying to the leaders in congress you are focused on the wrong issues the wrong priorities for the last two years and here is the scary thing, look at speaker pelosi and senator reid are doubling down like they have not gotten the message the president went on tv to say it was a communications problem. [laughter] apparently needs to get a few more speeches we will understand all of those great things but i do give him credit for one thing, for the leading in their convictions but there are republicans taking cover they have much change of direction that may be good for the republican party but not good for the country but we have to decide will return to the limited government hour founding fathers intended or continue this more expensive government? make no mistake the more the

government taxes and spends the less liberty and freedom we have provide better start talking about this book or my publisher will be very upset. i am here about leadership and crisis and some of the things that i write about is about the red tape, incompetence of our government. don't get me wrong, but the things that government does i want it to do well i am here to tell you the government has gotten so big and wants to get in the health care and lost the core focus the did not start with the oil spill by talk about our frustration going back to hurricane katrina calling the federal government for help and the response was the sheriff, i am not taking phone call right now can you send us an e-mail? [laughter] said he would email?

the water is rising i don't have electricity how voice and e-mail? [laughter] they sent but those details in the email we will get help you as soon as we can. [laughter] the reality is it doesn't matter if it was a democratic or republican president we should be able to demand excellence from our government and should give you a couple of examples the fact of the oil spill hit me fully the first time when i was in the air boat those of you better outdoorsman this is some of the best fishing along the coast for the mississippi river since the gulf is wetlands and just amazing a was in the year-ago and before i could see it you could actually smell the oil then as you got closer you could hear what i call the deafening silence of the oil this time of year you should

be hearing critters and bugs and marine life and fish but could not hear anything. the oil killed it all been yousaf for the first time the sec had the stuff of coaching everything the biologists said the grass was turning brown and in seven days it would be dead if you put a water bottle it stuck to everything but then sitting there day after day, week after week. a national tv the government said we will have absorbent boom down there doesn't that sound good? [laughter] that sounds high-tech that exists in the way to say we're during cotton balls and paper towels but nothing has changed the federal government said don't worry we have another plan. why? we may have to burn the wetlands to save the

wetlands high net with the bunch of louisiana fishermen and local residents we may not be the smartest people in the world not a nobel prize winner among all of us. [laughter] [applause] no phd is but the most practical people you have never met one says governor governor, why do we just let it sit there? i said what we vacuum the oil? it acted like i was an idiot how we'll get a truck? i am not the smartest guy but what to pledge truck on the back of the but and go vacuum up the oil and i hate this answer we have never done that before we can do that it. they have an adverse build this much coast before -- the soil off our coast when not try this so i

have the national guard build a couple of prototypes it was so funny looking it was a truck strapped on the back of a pontoon bridge a did not look like it would flow to but it worked. they put it in the water and picked up thousands of gallons of oil one reporter cover this and looked at me and said governor, are those the same trucks you clean up port a potties after football games? [laughter] what ever you do, do not put that in your story. [laughter] they do what? [laughter] called them a vacuum barge that sounds better than porta-potti the technology was not that different but basically the same concept but the private sector love this and within days they said we have industrial province we have barges, dozens of these working along the coast picking up the oil and one

week later i got a call from the federal government. governor, we're shutting down your barges. why? when of the few things that is working. we have not done our inspections yet. what are you worried about? we need to check the bells because if you are not using the right balance there is a danger you may drop some oil back into the water. [laughter] we are taking of thousands of gallons of oil and you are worried about a drop? they said those are the rules and i said you better have a greater sense of urgency you have 24 hours hours later if federal officer came to my center said we cannot find a phone number for any of the barges they had already approved every one of them the right hand and not know with the left hand was doing they said we do not need to check the valves but they have to

stay in the port because now we want to count the number of life jackets and fire extinguishers per i said you cannot do this in the bay of while they pick up the oil? no. 24 hours later i went to the port myself along the way miraculously they say great news we will not do this inspections after all but for 24 hours it sat there unnecessarily because of the bureaucracy and red tape. one last example the oil was coming into the day when of the most fertile fishing areas along the coast we cannot get the federal government to move laterally their boats and skimmers and equipment sitting and waiting to be used and said there is no oil don't worry in the fisherman kept seeing it so finally i took the federal official in charge of up in a black hawk

helicopters and he could see for himself it was a friday morning of was so excited it was clearly there he saw the heavy oil in a day and said you are right i said who do need to radio to tell those people to get those boats in the water before it hits the wetland? he said no. you don't understand it will take the least 48 hours to go through the bureaucracy to get this done. this was the man in charge of the federal response for the state saw the oil in the resources are there two melamine it will take between 24 and 48 hours and later told the reporter i guess i am just low and down but it was the system time and time again find about stuff not being moved to the gulf with resources because regulations required it to keep it there that is like running at of ammunition on the front lines of the war but keeping the bullets in a

warehouse to keep it there just in case. we could go on and on but for us, we want to see a greater sense of urgency to see the government of bp said everything they had too many times they got in the way or other innovations but the reason i started they're both with the book and my remarks when the government gets so big to run health care companies to secure the border it ruins the day's lows as the core competencies ford said government is big enough to give you everything you what and take away everything you have and that is what we are seeing in that is a lesson we learned and i hope the country learned out of what happened. the second chapter of "leadership and crisis" concerns health care and it scares me and worries me the

gabbana legislation that has passed congress come over $1 trillion of spending actually closer at $2,000,000,000,000.500 billi on of a tax increase and cuts to medicare experts say does not bend down the cost curve in getting the government even more involved in our lives 16 million americans put into the medicaid and health care system my background is in health care policy but what scares me the most not as a policy maker governor but the father of three young children. but to show a couple of examples we have had with her adult children and eight year old girl who runs the house, they stay with their grandparents i can only imagine how much sugar they are eating as we talk right now. [laughter] that same stritch grandfather banks timeout is

cruel punishment as he sprang to me he tells me we never spank you when you were growing up. i said he has forgotten my entire childhood. it is amazing. [laughter] but that is what grandparents are supposed to do. a six year-old boy and four year old boy as well. my eight year old was born the same hospital as your daddy the six year old boy same hospital, the four year-old had a slightly different idea coming into this world. the first child took 36 hours second took 24 hours our third child sixth 30 minutes. [laughter] he was born at home and a two of us alone on the bathroom floor delivering this child she did all of the work to not get me wrong people after words said you did such a great job i said i just got the baby. i had an easy job but to

share a couple of thoughts i don't care how tough you are there is a route-- there is a reason why god allowed women to have babies one mahan came up afterwards and said the same thing happened to be. i had a kidney stone and it is the exact same thing. [laughter] i said i would not go home and tell my wife at that because and eight lb. kidney stone is not the same thing. [laughter] my beautiful wife is a very accomplished engineer in her own right and has a very interesting feel of the world of medication if god intended me to do this without drugs he would not have invented all these great drugs i want these in the parking lot. don't wait till i get to the hospital natural childbirth lessons and had done none of

that we're on the floor and the baby comes my second lesson of advice. babies don't go the way they do on tv. [laughter] they come out wrapped in a beautiful blanket and angelic and take my wife is screaming in pain say what does our child look like? i don't have a hard to tell her the truth. [laughter] i say he is a beautiful baby boy. [laughter] he is covered with duke and does not look write. [laughter] but i really thinking we need to put him back who. [laughter] my final piece of advice if you ever find yourself in a situation like this not an appropriate time to make jokes. [laughter] five is trading-- trying to land in an issue was in such pain in the middle of her contraction i said they want to stop teenage girls from

getting pregnant they should show a video of this. you are making jokes now? really? [laughter] my father in law and a policemen outside arrived they heard her screaming and said i am not going in there. in the old days the father stayed outside i am glad i saw the first to being born but i will say this. the moment i handed our child to my wife, she forgot all of her pain and completely in that moment was so focused on that little beautiful baby boy we have been buried 13 years. she is my best friend and amazing partner that has to be the most incredible sixth experience of our married life of being a part of the miracle of birth but what it wants the government delivering stationed affair with the delivery of health

care cost that is one of the most important experience is we do. . . he won't be able to breathe or eat properly unless we do that. he looked perfectly healthy. and you know when you hear that about your child a couple thoughts raced through your head. the first was you always read about one in a million children having this or that, jennifer think if your child.

the second thing you think is a boy, i would give anything to trade places with him so it's happening to me and not him. even in that moment we are reassured by faith, we know, what god wants to know the hairs on your head or worried we are not feeding the birds. we are blessed. my little boy before he had three months he had his open heart surgery and is doing great. 6-year-old blake sees a cardiologist regularly. his heartbeat isn't quite normal but is doing great. the doctors of the governor, i'm not sure, i'm not really sure he should play football when he gets older because of his heart. i laughed and looked at the doctor and said look at him. [laughter] what are the odds in the son of mine is going to be big enough to play football? [laughter] we raise them day in louisiana. there is no way he would be big enough to play. but in that moment, i don't want a government, some bureaucrat in

baltimore or washington telling me which dr. i can go to, which procedure i can get, or telling that doctor or nurse how to do their job. one of the hardest moments as a married couple is handing over our little boy less than three months old to an anesthesiologist as he walked away with our son to go to surgery. she said we were fortunate. the older children sometimes yell at their parents don't let them take me. how were we obviously wasn't old enough to know what was coming on i don't know if we could have stopped ourselves if he was old enough to say that. in that moment, when the doctors and nurses come with their training and years of education to do with the need to do to save my child life and that's what worries me so much about this massive government intervention in one-sixth of our health care. in the book i talk about the status quo wasn't acceptable. we have the best health care in the entire world but also there are things we need to do to improve it. let's make health insurance affordable across state lines and jobs. let's be serious about cracking down lawsuits the cost tens of billions of dollars.

that's voluntary purchasing pools people have the scale that individual's work for large employees to. let's focus on the outcome, 75% of what we spend is spent on chronic patient. let's do a better job keeping folks out of emergency rooms for non-emergency conditions and do a better job trading diabetics and those with asthma and others. there are things we can do to improve quality health care that don't include putting 16 million people and medicaid that don't involve a massive government bureaucracy. did you know that right now in medicare today there are 130,000 pages of rules and regulations counted by the mayo clinic and the american hospital association say the nurses spend an hour filling out paperwork for every hour they provide care. that's not just medicare but also regulations from public and private sectors as well. anybody here that thinks the government is going to do a better job of care remember the bureaucracy and red tape of the baliles bill and katrina and ask yourself to you on the same bureaucracy and red tape brought into our health care system?

another example of a topic discussed in the book is about immigration. i want to talk to you about my parents' experience. my parents came to baton rouge louisiana. my mom was pregnant with me. they came so my mother could study. she was a graduate study in nuclear physics and you know, when i think about their sort the reality is it is more interesting than my story. [laughter] my dad is one of nine children, grew up in a house without electricity and running water. literally i remember asking monday for an allowance for the charts used to make us do and instead of the lines i got a lecture. he said do you know how lucky you are? he said he had to walk uphill to school almost 3 miles and apparently when school was done he would have to walk uphill coming back from school as well. [laughter] apparently they didn't invent

school buses or downhill until i was born. [laughter] he said how much do you think you're going to pay me for the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the roof it over your head? i was going to owe him more money than he was going to pay me. i never did get an allowance, but here's the amazing thing. at first they turned down an offer from lsu. my mom said i'm pregnant, it's not the right time to move the family and lsu comes back and says we will give you an entire month off once the baby comes. that was such a good offer they said okay. this was before the days of the internet or cell phones. they had never been to baton rouge, louisianan, they had never come to visit, and they just moved, the two of them, my dad and his pregnant wife, my mom. this is to build the store, my dad will doesn't know anybody come he opens the yellow book and starts calling companies looking for a job and finally finds one that hauliers him sight unseen over the phone and this is what i love about my

dad. he says that's great i don't of course we don't know how i will get to work and the company says we will come get you, don't worry. and the amazing thing is that my parents have lived the american dream. they had the competence of the optimism, the knowledge that if you work hard and apply yourself you can create a better quality-of-life for your children but let me tell you something don't try to criticize america in front of my dad. my parents chose to come here. they know what it's like. they know what it's like growing up in a society we don't have as much freedom where you don't take these opportunities for granted. if my brother and i ever tried to complain about anything we would get another lecture from my dad. he grew up in such poverty i've heard those stories every single day of my life. we learn quickly not to come home and come clean. the teacher doesn't like me or life's not fair or my friends get a lower test grade and i got. none of that mattered to my dad. he isn't one of those of the

brough on 75 he wanted 100. he's one of those that's coming and i heard this rick, i don't know if it's true, but after joseph kennedy, won the bobby kennedy comes home and bobby kennedy, you know comes home one day and says that, i decided i wanted to become a catholic priest instead of running for office. his father reportedly said that's great. we've never had a pope in the family before. it would be nice having one. [laughter] that was my dad as well. what ever you did, you were going to be the best and you were never going to complete because every day that he woke up in america you were already better off than everybody else in the world. you had the privilege and the blessing to live in the greatest country in the history of the world. i'm going to talk about american exceptional those amana weigel but i learned from my parents. here's the important thing about their experience. they came here to be americans. what do i mean? i have a whole chapter about assimilation. some people say it's not politically correct to impose

american values on those who are coming here. that's nonsense. i mean excuse me if somebody chooses to come here i think it's okay to expect them to want to embrace american values. what makes america so great. [applause] what makes america so great is there are people here that can trace their lineage all the way back to plymouth rock. they can trace their lineage back people who've been in this country in such as of years and others hundreds of hours. we are not here because of the common ethnicity or a particular history. we are here because of a shared commitment to certain values and ideals and that is the genius of america. my parents didn't come to change it come to fight against it. they came to change the american dream to be citizens of the land of free and home of the brief and i think a great deal of our strength is our shared commitment to our fall u.s, hard work, respect for the rule of law, commitment to freedom, rugged individualism, believe in

god, that is where our strength comes from. i am for diversity. you can look at me and see that certainly i'm an example of diversity by diversity we are talking about things like skin color, ethnicity. that's great. red, yellow, black, white. we are all precious and his sight but if biodiversity we need more people believing in collectivism, socialism, one-party rule, a military dictatorships, suicide bombing, treating women like second-class citizens or some of the other negative things this world has to offer, no thank you. we need people who want to come and be part of the american experiment who believe in the american dream and my parents are great examples of this. the assimilate because they love this country. the appreciate it more than us sometimes i think immigrants can love this country even more than we do because we are tempted to take for granted. we don't realize the alternatives out there. another chapter i right in this book talks about the reaction

people have when they find out i am a cultural conservative. i'm a fiscal conservative i can't tell you how many times whether it is on a college campus or whether it is a national quarter somebody will come to me and say how can somebody like you given such greed and pretended you have been, how can you be educated and conservative? [laughter] some think it must just be an act. you must not believe in these things. i hate to disappoint you must not be as smart as you think i am because i really am conservative down to my bones. i think of a couple stories about my experience when i was working in the medicare commission. i was in washington, d.c. meeting with a friendly "washington post" reporter who wanted to write about the work we were doing, and before we ate, we were at lunch before we 8i was saying increase over my kneal just a quick silent prayer for the food in front of us and was startled. she asked me if everything was

okay to we need to send it back? and i said no i was saying grace don't people degrees in d.c.? we do this all the time in louisiana. it was so foreign. i was startled by the fact she was startled that i was saying grace. it's not the only experience with oxford university and ran into a very intelligent young woman who had been to harvard university, one of the smartest people i met had some of the best education in england has to offer. late one night she said you know i'm just curious if you can answer a couple questions and i said sure. i'm just curious, what is your difference between old and the new testament? i hear people talking about those things and i don't understand the difference, who is the st. paul guy? i keep hearing people talk about him, he must be important. harvard like so many of our universities was founded as a seminary, first so many years ago. ever regret it from harvard has

to be a labor, but how can one consider oneself educated in today's world without understanding the basics of the western civilization? thank you got in oxford i have to answer questions about islami and mohammad and the koran and it's amazing to me that when you send your children to school, when you go and the internet with national quarters and folks along the coast were and are often it almost feels like we are talking past each other so we don't have the same common experiences and vocabulary. i'm sure to tell you i am a proud some of the south, doctrinaire conservative. i guess i'm one of those poor souls pointing guns and religion in louisiana. [applause] the it simply want to share with you this is chapter 16 of the book. it's called it's the culture, stupid, and we have a very famous political consultant out of louisiana.

[laughter] he did a blurb for the book but he said he came up with the the great thing in the economy, stupid, and i'm here to tell you america is great but if america's not great just because of our economic system to we don't get me wrong i am a strong believer in the free market system. i've written for "the wall street journal," spoken of the heritage foundation and the free market system is better than any alternative in the world. america is not great simply because of our government. don't get me wrong. i'm a strong believer in democracy, to get better than the alternatives and america is certainly not great because of the military strength and don't get me wrong and a strong supporter of our military, and i would prefer a much stronger american military. i think the stronger we are as america, the savor the world is. but what i write in the book is what makes so great american is stronger than the strongest military and the beautiful piece of property, the real beauty and

geniuses our culture. our culture is the glue that holds us together. the engine that makes the american dream possible. the culture is many things. it includes a share some of goals values and attitudes. it defines what we strive for and value and how we conduct ourselves as the people. i argue in the book it's not capitalism, the duty of the country that makes us a great. in politics the expert on to polis together, pulls apart. everything gets dissected and put into neat categories. tax issues on spending issues on social issues, foreign policy issues, defense issues, on and on the the subornation artificial. the founding fathers got it right when they said that this american experiment was designed for a more moral people, virtuous people, religious people, the understood is the culture that bonds us together. there is a famous saying that sums up my point of says america is great because it is good. if america sees is to be good, america will cease to be great.

i know it's not a popular notion these days but we feel our own peril. another chapter, the seventh exit a lot to share with you, i have a chapter in the book about what are we going to do about converse? i spent all of three years based on what i said in the book they may not want me back and that's okay with me. harry truman came as lee completed the do nothing congress. i'd love to have a do nothing congress, that would be an improvement over what we get today. [applause] when you're a little boy or girl taking civics class in high school or middle school, you learn the best and brightest to washington and served in congress behind here to tell you that's not true. i'm here to tell you when you get there you find a cross section of the country. smart people, dom people, criminals, people are strong character, people with merely character. [laughter] i've got a trend that says some people need your presentation, too. well, they've got it in congress let me tell you. [laughter]

i provide specific recommendations of how we can fix congress. i'm here to tell you it's not enough to let another group of good people and there are honorable people in the greek leaders but it's not enough just to set another cast of characters to washington. we need a structurally changed nation's capital and i go back -- we need to go back to the founding fathers' intent i think about some of the structural forms in place for example there's a balanced budget requirement in the constitution. what a novel idea don't spend more money than you take in. we've got a requirement supermajority vote before they can raise taxes with a novel idea for congress to read a supermajority vote before you take more of our liberty, freedom and money away line of a line-item veto, make them vote on board on single items of legislation. the does little together. they go home and say i voted for the puppies and religiously and i didn't vote for all that, it this didn't happen to be there but that is my fault. they know that -- they think we

don't understand the tricks they are playing. we need to have pay-as-you-go budgeting and here is my most important recommendation. this is quite odd but i think it can work. we used to pay farmers not to grow crops. i suggest we pay members of congress not to pass bills. [laughter] [applause] it is a relatively recent infection of a full-time converse i'm serious. make them part time, give them term limits, don't let them become lobbyists. if they have to live under the sam laws maybe there will be more common sense in washington, d.c.. mark twain said it best coming your wallets and liberties are best when they are not in session let's pay them to stay home. they should lose money every day they meet and we will give them a - per diem every time. [applause] i've talked little bit about the spending problem in our country. we need to stop the madness to but i don't know if use of the

candidates running for governor of new york. i don't know what else he stood for, but he got up there and he said he was the candidate for the rent is too high party. now that was all over you to be the was amazing to read saturday night live did a skit. every candidate should have watched this. he clearly understands marketing. i think we should start our own political party and it's going to be the debt is too high. the reality is they've gone from $4,000,000,000,000.92 to $14 trillion. its projected almost double over $26 trillion the voters i think pulled the full-year alarm on the escape slide and said we need to stop this. here's what happens in congress. some people propose a program that say it's going to benefit all people, young people, poor people, disadvantage, single moms, the unemployed. if you care about these people you will vote. and here is what the republicans in congress did. they said we are not like the democrats. we only want to spend half of

what they spend. so we become democrat like. the reality is we try to get competition of who can spend the most. if you define compassion as spending the most, we are going to lose that battle and we are off to the raises and before you know it, if you vote against any of these programs all of a sudden you are labeled and on caring friend of the rich from a friend of wall street even of fox news. [laughter] the bottom line is we need to put our country in a different direction. we understand the federal government isn't the answer to all our problems. we need to understand every dollar they spend is not read that comes out of our pockets deep pockets. 37 cents a decent now was taken from our children and grandchildren. the ninth and final example i want to share do we really want to be like europe? what do i mean by that? i talked to you earlier about american exceptional as and when asked about american exceptional is in our remarks to people in

other countries felt the same about their country as well. when asked about american exceptional was and he didn't take the upper tennessee to see of course, we live in the greatest country in the history of the world. remember he went overseas and called himself a bottle and a citizen of the united states but a citizen of the world. i'm not even sure what that means. i am a citizen of america and i believe in america's place in the world. i make the case for american exceptional was some. in sophisticated circles it is considered unenlightened to say we live in the greatest country of the world and america's most powerful country in the world as the best thing for everyone. both the statements let me warn you if you want to go to teach at the university you shouldn't say things like that to mean you will be kicked off the guest list for the next cocktail party in washington and they might bring you on charges so be careful. i'm here to defend those statements and take on. yes america is the greatest country in the world. i talk about american exceptional listen. there is no place on earth our

combination of freedom, opportunity and commitment to doing the right thing and make no mistake about it, the world is the safest when america is strong guest. it seems unbelievable to me. i had a great opportunity to meet with prime minister netanyahu of israel. it seems to me foreign leaders understand. the understand the importance for the four leaders of space countries out there understand the important role america has to play and must play for the world to be a safer place. american jews is our power for the preservation of peace and liberty and freedom and a very unique thing. i want to think about it, not above building empires, we are not about leaving our trips abroad permanently except to protect our allies. we should be proud of it, we shouldn't have to apologize. the family of nations is misguided. america is not just another country. let me be clear i am not saying we are better people or have

more work than others. the founding fathers of america got it right and as long as we don't screw up with a start, and by the way, we could screw it up as long as we don't come this country will remain the greatest in the world. a lot of clothes on a final story before i take questions. people ask me because i outlined in the book leadership crisis of the challenges facing the country and talk about education policy of the war on terrorism but i'm not a cynic, not a pessimist at all. i truly believe our best days as a country are ahead of us, not behind us, and if you don't believe -- if you want to recharger patriotism or have hope and faith i invite you to the best party will ever attend it is a ceremony when the troops return home from serving overseas. as governor i try to go to every departure and return ceremony and these are amazing simoni speed our national guard we got 3,000 national guardsmen in iraq this year and almost a thousand guard man fighting off the coast.

they've been activated for hurricanes, oil spill, guardsmen in afghanistan and all over the world. we've given medals to the troupe to thank them for their service. i visit with families of those that pay the ultimate sacrifice but have lost a child or grandchild. the story of just one of the thousands of louisiana national guardsmen and it for the first time in 2008 was coming back from iraq. he'd been gone almost an entire year. his unit had been there and we were waiting for the planes to come. they were on the tarmac and i ended up visiting with all of the families and i met one young woman in particular. she was holding her baby, she was a young mother succeeded her husband was coming home. she said governor, i'm not complaining. when he enlisted i didn't sign up to be a single mom. i'm proud he served his country he's only been home for the birth of our child. he's been on the entire time and i'm excited he's coming home.

you know that young man was excited to come back as well to be you can get a picture of your child buy internet, e-mail, it's not the same as holding your baby and watching them grow and turn into a little baby boy. steven chu leave the plane landed. as the plane landed and the troops were getting off the plane they were swarmed by their family, spouses and parents, the kids were waiting the flags, parents had pictures of their children, everyone is excited their loved ones back home safe. i got lost in the confusion after several minutes i heard a familiar voice i heard a woman called out my name saying governor, would you come over here and get my picture? i said i would be honored. she said i wanted you to meet my husband. this is the guy i was telling you about to read what you get your picture with us? i said i would be honored. she gave her camera to a friend and the trend was trying to figure out the camera. the camera is different these days. i've started visiting with the husband and asked about the unit and the progress in iraq and ask

what they had seen and done it back in 2008 and then i made a mistake to what i asked this young soldier a question i never should have asked him and before i tell the rest of the story i will remind you why was a brand new governor in my defense. it's not like to give you a book telling how to be governor. nobody told me what you're supposed to say and not supposed to say so in meeting this young man visiting with his wife and i was curious i said you've been gone almost an entire year i'm just curious when you get home tonight what's the first thing you want to do when you get home? [laughter] i thought maybe he would want to eat some louisiana shrimp or crawfish, take a hot shower. his wife and trusted him, she wouldn't let him speak. [laughter] i don't know what she thought he was going to say that she said governor i tell you what he's going to do. i said yes, ma'am? she said he's going to change a year's worth of diapers, that's

what he's been to do. [laughter] i said i can't save you from that, good luck. second time i saw him several months later i was giving a talk, he came up to see me afterwards and said remember me? he's been changing diapers ever since i got home thanks to you. [laughter] let me tell you the third time i saw him, i was at the island and the inactivated to be amazing job needed. the move 46 million pounds of sand, rock and dirt to fill dozens so we can fight the wheel before it got into the residence to write down on funder value they had half a dozen of those. the bailout land bridges everything from black caucus and other helicopters to everything they could to build these land bridges all over the coast and they were using greeters and the work 24 hours a day under big lights in the heat and during the day, during the night, and they built these land bridges

with rocks, things of the did you read these to be over the water they would build the land bridge, past the skimmers and they would be trapped by the land bridge time and time again than they would go back it up and if the land bridge hadn't been there it would have gone straight into the estuary. that wasn't one of our last lines of defense. so i was out there in the military humvee to try to help supervise the work to see what they were doing. the young man driving it said governor, do you remember me? it was the same young man that did come back from iraq in 2008. that is what is amazing about these men and women in uniform, they run towards danger, not away from it so we can be safe. i still couldn't help myself. i said last time i saw you -- [laughter] i sent you just had one child. i'm just curious, have you had any more children since then? in view of the larger family. he said governor, we ran out of time. you keep to plunging me. i don't have more time to have

babies. [laughter] it's amazing our kids get it. we live in a culture that some of its sub liberties for being famous and our kids understand our real heroes. i came home one day after i was sworn in as governor and my little boy comes up running daddy's homecoming daddy's home and screaming he was so happy before i went to bed he comes and cross my legs. i left him up so i can see him face-to-face she's still yelling a daddy's home, daddy's home. i say i can hear you i know i'm home. he looks at me and says show me your badge. [laughter] why don't have a badge. he says you mean you're not a state trooper? [laughter] i said i'm governor of the great state of louisiana. he thought about this for a minute. gave me a disappointed look only a son can get his father do you think he might become a state trooper one de? [laughter] i said sun, i will work on it. we are blessed to live in the greatest country of the world.

don't let anybody tell you otherwise and don't for a minute for get our best days are ahead of us, not behind us. thanks to the fact there are men and women willing to run towards danger not away from this we can be seen as well as our young boys and girls who don't understand our real heroes are the folks famous, but the men and women that served us. my publisher would be mad if i didn't say ten more times i hope you will pick up a copy of the book and i will be happy to take your questions. thank you for having me here today. [applause] thank you very much. [applause] [applause] >> thank you. i know we have a few minutes for

a few questions and i would be happy to take questions. yes, ma'am. >> [inaudible] that's a great question. the current status of the moratorium and pact. >> [inaudible] [laughter] she said thank you for not using a teleprompter. i will leave that for the president. [laughter] on the moratorium, let me talk about the moratorium. let's remember how we got this moratorium. the secretary of interior babies of the report last week that basically said the secretary of the department consulted 15 of their own hand-picked independent experts including from the national academy of engineering and elsewhere to be those experts make specific recommendations about how drilling can be done more safely in the gulf. with the department did is they added the six month moratorium to the recommendations to make it appear like it was peer review. eight of the experts spoke up and said we never saw the moratorium, we don't agree with

the moratorium to read what me be clear nobody in the louisianan wants to see another explosion, loss of life, another oil spill in the water but it is also true we want the federal government to do its job so our people can go back to work and it's true we don't want them to have a one size fits all moratorium. there were recommendations like the redundant equipment, more federal inspectors. there was a recommendation to do well pressure tests and other things that would have made drilling had been more safely. and here's the frustrating thing when we talk to the administration they didn't understand how the industry worked. they said don't worry about it they can't go anywhere the oil is still there. four of them have already gone to africa that we know about. somebody is to tell me all sending the equipment and jobs overseas helps our country and dependent on foreign sources of energy helps our country. ..

>> center prieta of -- as secretary of an interior is supposed to come to hour i am hopeful they will have a predictable lower the jury environment. companies can follow the rules as they know what they are but when they aren't changing and with the uncertainty, this industry should understand the uncertainty about tax

rates, cap-and-trade, the moratorium. the largest deal company in america was to establish a 3.4 billion dollars five phases the most modern steel facility in the country when thousand 258 permanent jobs average pay $75,000 they bought the land several months ago i have been talking to the ceo for a few years but he said based on our conversations and what you are doing if we build in america we will build in louisiana but based on the uncertainty coming out of washington with the cap-and-trade bill coming elah of the house they are looking at brazil i am glad they finally chose one month ago to proceed in the louisiana but they go the jobs we missed out while they were waiting for congress and somebody needs to explain how sending those jobs to brazil helps our environment, economy, the greatest impact of the moratorium was the

uncertainty and the multinational companies will be five they will go to africa to make their money the supply vessels thomas restaurants, caterers, mom and pop businesses, the louisiana workers, they are impacted the federal government was so happy they bribed. they said it will only cost eight or 12,000 jobs but the private industry estimates are higher but try to tell them that are trying to pay their bills. these are proud people and people that work along the coast of and the moratorium on paper is no longer there but still is and the federal judges said it better called it arbitrary and capricious not related to the facts. we want them to listen to their own experts to be connected to the facts of the ground the moratorium is one example they did not do

that to the detriment of my state and our country as well. we will do one more. >> hello governor on my campus professors and students are not apologizing for america trying to look at europe as the greatest continent in the world and so my question is, why do college professors do this and how do we combat this to teach why america is the greatest country on the earth? >> i went upstairs to think the college students for being here just a couple of my experiences. i had a great experience at brown but there is something about sharpening metal it is about being tested i heard some of the most aggressive and particulate defenses of

liberal philosophy you will hear that is good for a young conservative because i don't stand up here to tell you we need affirmative action for conservatives. one story i repeat in the book about talking to the president and i asked him the question larry summers at harvard university why when talking about diversity you look at diversity so many ways what about intellectual? having a conversation with jesse ventura, the editor from a "washington post" a pretty group -- interesting group. [laughter] but the vast majority will self admit they voted for the democratic candidate in the last election the faculty will have a more liberal tilts than the general population. i said where are the

conservatives? they are not proportionately here are near campus the way they are in the rest of the country and he said the reason that is the evangelical christians tend not to send their children to harvard which is probably good for them and good for us. let me say a couple of things he was not trying to be of the war offensive the same with others may think and just don't say i am not here to criticize larry summers he said as a percentage of the student population it is not what you would expect but i did think it was interesting if he said that about any other group of there within boycotts and protests and i remember talking about your experience our remember being in a class it seems like everybody was trying harder to be more of a victim than the person next too them.

but those who had grade educations to say those are fortunate people to get a great educations who talk about how awful it had been and how blessed i was you just thought you were happy. [laughter] i don't even know what that means. [laughter] i was happy. i want to get involved in a campaign with a marxist and the liberals, we started the college republicans and the state chapter as well to become the biggest club on campuses and that is 100%

penetration to figure out every single republican on campus. every other student disagreed i can tell you when people said you are the first person that believes a b or c. a couple of pieces of the price. you have a much richer education experience than your fellow students then where everybody agrees with them if you're willing to stand up and speak up for what you believe and defend it was articulate and well thought out and reason policies for why messrs. reach your conclusions and that is a great educational experience and if you are a compassionate person of course, you believe in your liberal beliefs and voted for president obama is a great opportunity to challenge yourself to respond to the arguments but i do think it becomes a self selecting group and why it

armas of those going into government service and to be more liberal and democratic? conservatives tons say our highest aspiration is to go do those things. that is not to be little some very accomplished intellectual conservative professors but peggy noonan wrote this describing her book when character was king how reagan had to stop to think about this was the appropriate use of his talents, time, that is not, we don't say we work hard one day you too can work for the federal government. [laughter] that is not the dream we don't say one day you'll likely become a university professor. [laughter] but we need to look college campuses and government that

to maybe we need to spend time doing that may be considered missionary work. not a lifetime but for a while then go back to the private sector. working and creating jobs and making the country grow and survive. but if you ask the professors come i can guarantee they are a little more conservative but i applaud you for being here, the most important thing the worst thing is to bend to popular peer pressure the worst to do is to say the professor believes 90% of the students believe that i need to believe it as well but the best we can do is stand up to say look at what america has done not only for americans but not for america, it has now saved

the world in the last 100 years the third time america has saved the world from the forces of evil. world war ii, america stood between totalitarians and democracy loving countries. the cold where-- the cold war legacy two between communism and the free world and now the war and terrorism we have allies but it is america taking the lead. where would this world be or your beloved country be if not for america not once or twice but three times no offense to europe that many trade their liberty for security we are a young dynamic growing country we must not make that trade off. one final thought. a professor at brown said bobby, you are too smart not to be a socialist.

[laughter] i said ashley, you are too smart not to be a republican. [laughter] he left it at that. thank you for having me today i encourage you to get teeeleven thank you for having me. [applause] what. >> is the motivation cocaine into the military, did you

find it any different than the reason men go into the military? >> there are a whole range of reasons some women said it sounds very much like they've really fund did to was cape there small towns and did not want to leave white -- live like their friends who were having lots of babies and other women wanted a venture they wanted to go to war and wanted to fight one woman who was chairman and actually emigrated to the united states because she was too old for the german military and wanted to fight in the war. >> but i mean some of it was economic many of them and i talk to came from real poverty and the military was a way out. i spoke with many women who were teenage mothers it was

a good career path in light of the current debate over health care several women had children with diseases or health conditions and needed good insurance and that is why they joined the military. >> that just makes me think what was the socio-economic background? >> it was pretty widespread economic factor was a big motivator for the young nurses there was a split largely of career nurses who were in quite some time and then the young that were recruited at of nursing school which was the rotc for nurses most had signed up for the benefits it is

all whole range of motivation been signed up if they were drafted the army would decide they were good infantrymen seto the draft explain the men's motivation although the women were different hi, everybody. th yo >> hello everybody thank you so much for coming out this afternoon to listen to me

talk about my book. >> we will have fun but let's talk about your favorite florida of memoryat is now back ini miami what do you remember? >> guest: i love florida and i love being in miami my favorite memory is work campaigning with the senator lieberman is staying at the biltmore where we spent a lot of time on the campaign if you read my book is also the place i took a bunch of xanax and almost overdosed the day before the election and but it is interesting to be back. i love it here and it is nice to be in warm weather with good cuban food. [laughter] >> host: i don't know if you have seen the cover but r it is an elephant most a people think it is photoshop. >> guest: it is real. it was then the of britney spears and kb perry music video and on the cover of

"vanity fair."ow, now i forget her name but i was glad that i did that. wh >> when you first open the book is a big thing about freedom why is that the very first thing that you talkou about? >> guest: i don't know howhe many of you have read the book but the first line is three done is addictive. the book, for me, was a coming-of-age story i dropped a living on the campaign trail and primary-care others and was inspired by those books i wanted to write myjoin coming-of-age story i was 22 joining my campaign of my father and 24 when it endedf that was a critical time point* and it was a labor of love. how low and up. a good friend from thef campaign and it was a labor

of love and people who have responded, people like me that feel this enchanted by process inal general it is nice to go to college to see 20 somethings that relate to this fish shots. of water coming of age story i am happy anybody is out reading it honestly. [laughter] >> host: you talk about feeling like an outcast. why? >> guest: i a was thrown off to give a good message by anyone. [laughter] during the primary process i had amazing time i started to blog for my father but became ar he nominee and sarah palin was chosen as his running mate i was excommunicated if you will, for not placating or dressing the right way or

talking the right way and i came through self loading why i talk like this that does not fit into republican politics after the electionanyb unrealized there is nothing read at -- wrong with me all these pundits and experts who seem to think young need to change to be involved in the political process will be the end of any young person wanting to be a part of politics especially republican.. that was very inspiring but it took time and reflection to write about that. >> host: you mention sarah palin but you mentioned going through try to see who will be the runningi matewho going through the folks who are possible contenders. when you found out it was sarah palin, what did you think? >> guest: i started to cry[l [laughter] [applause]

but the first real chapter i did not know who she was like everybody else i started to go on my blackberry there were flashes on the news they were saying her name wrong and there is no way toho s describe it try had no idea who she was two the bus he been to meeting her i was told she has a bunch of children i have to figure out and help them and i am good to roll with it with a stressful situation but like everybody else, it the way it unfolded for everybody else is the way it happened for me.d i only found out 90 minutes before i knew my life was changing and i was about to go do something with someone that i have not met or nothing about. tim at the time there's very little to find out about her and the internet she is gorgeous and the governor

and from alaska. that is how was started. [laughter] >> host: so through this whole thing you did started to start the blog? >> i wanted to join my father's campaign but i am not a pundit at the time i went to columbia which is a c very liberal school it is such a scarlet letter for me. [laughter] that is all i knew how to do. i worked at "newsweek" so i suggested doing it. it was my baby and very successful. with young people not outside of politics, but it was liberating and i joke about the experience but it was the most amazing experience of my life why i was inspired to write about. >> host: you talk about the mistakes but what is one mistake that you learned from most? >> guest: i talk about i

made it too many things about me. it was not about me if it is about age. ab politics is not about the person but the idea, the party, the politician politician, getting over the fact people did not like me. if i could go back in time i would definitely do something different and be less if they brought to the secret service. [laughter] >> host: you talk about a abstracting young voters and that is important too you. how did you do that? was oneogette.com way to when they took me to campaign at colleges but i thought i was more effective post election because i felt t like i no longer had to answer to people anymore my father staff, advisers, the great irony is these people cannot get jobs of their own and i have no problem

working right now and it is very ironic. t i don't think people who claim to be experts necessarily are. i have not read going broke but i hear that she talks about being molded and not allowed to be herself but being asked to be put into a mold and that is why sarah had a hard time on the trail as well. >> host: what are some secrets of the campaign trail? >> guest: there are a lot of secrets a lot of it is in the book. >> host: talk about the good drunken is with reporters and stuff likee of that? >> the incestuous nature is what people would be surprised to get on a bus everyday use day at the same hotels with the journalists there is aea lot of reasons people end up getting married six staffers and

journalists there is a lot of hanky-panky on the plane. [laughter] not me but it is like being on tour with a band and one friend is a musician touring and the stories mirror each other but i did read game change and ia thought what that did this was the funng aspect. on and tour to change the world and i thought he made it very depressing and sad even for the obama campaign and i know they're having a good time as well i don't like the "journal" as saying it was so serious i havei me and some journalists doing karaoke and iowa. >> host: she also writes for the daily beast and m talking about a trueus republican tell me about thatly because there are some

issues you do not agree with. >> i was challenged to take a test to see if you are a real republican and i passed which some people were pissed off but i know i get harassed on a daily basis for nosit being here were enough whye don't i become a democrat because i believe in the core ideals of republican party but i am for a marriage and one it who has done a lot of judgment of things but people will come to her defense because i am in support of gay marriage it is a -- it isyo sad because ier exit the mold.

>> host: is somethingan wrong with the republican party today? >> guest: i worrye. about the tea partyy influence thatwh it is too extreme and i understand why they are so angry i and a stand for the frustrated nature comes from byel don't think it is organized well and there is not a cohesive message and without that you cannot ran. that was part of the problem with my father's campaign there was not the antidote to hope and change and until we get back and instead of saying we hate to obama's, that is not a message and no real movement has ever come to fruition without inspirational messages of somege kind so i do worry. >> host: you are honest what is the message you want people to get from this>> book?ng >> guest: when i was growing up i went there point* of self loading and ide was very fat and i thought

something was wrong with me and i did not sit and i cannot have a career in politics not in republican politics lincoln to a point* where my readers were atme w home saying i feel the exact same way as a young woman i don't completely toe the party line but i want to be i tell themt especially young people you are noeet alone out there.my i feel the exact same way my father is a famous politician i have been inome politics my mother was pregnant with me at the '84 convention and you are not alone and we can work, together the younger and older generation in the republican party and i am still a believer and will keep fighting this fight until i die. i love it. i gu that is my message to seven a lot of you have some questions allows get some questions from the audience. >> guest: i will answer

almost anything. >> i enjoyed the part about the politics but i am here to listen to more about bed 36 seaside. >> guest: i was asked one question on a good market -- "good morning america" because i was so that on a campaign i am normally not into been in politics i did not take very much it was said journalist and the staffers and sex and politics go hand in hand. >> host: why that title? >> guest: i was at a party with my girlfriends and trying to explain the experience it was dirty and sexy and interesting and fun and my friends said i like the dirty and sexy part that an is where it came from.

[laughter] >> were you on real world? m >> meghan that is not we are here for you. a i am a democrat i am trying to be here. >> i am a child of pop culture. [laughter] you look fantastic. one of your cast members. >> let me ask my question. [laughter] >> guest: i am sorry.rrou aboute asked to leave mccain's campaign? >> sure. >> how you reck fied the relationship with him as a

politician and a father. >> this is something i still deal with today, dan, from real world miami. [laughter] i was thrown off and i went to an image consul at that particular time in l.a. -- consultant who helped me and i was still swearing a lot and it was a high tense situation, and i wasn't -- i say my job was to stand still and look pretty. that's it. i didn't talk to my father about it because he was running for president. i talked to my mother about it and the choice was go home or campaign by yourself. i didn't want to go home, so i campaigned with my friends and ended up having the most amazing time of the entire campaign because it gave me a tour bus by myself and we toured and went into towns and like want to see a presidential campaign bus, come on. it was really fun. it ended up being like we made our own fun. it became sort of a weird story,

rumors that went on and rumors about why i was thrown off. some of them were that they wanted to highlight bristol being the pro-life daughter, and i was the opposite of that. i don't have anger about it now because it was my experience, but people bring it up about don't ask don't tell now with me and my father personally and politically. i grew up in a very open household, always talking and open dialogue. my parents know the daughter they raised, and i say, if you didn't want me to be like this, you shouldn't have sent me to the things like debate camp if you didn't want me this way. they love me and support me. i think my father wishes sometimes i was a teacher, but he still loves me, and i have to separate the political and perm, otherwise i won't have a relationship with my parents. it's that simple. i have to separate.

i'm going home for thanksgiving tomorrow and i'm not going to be talking about don't ask don't tell. it's a choice i have to make that i can fight with my parents or have a relationship with them and do my own thing. >> did you ever say anything when you were -- did you have a conversation about that? >> you know, he thought that i was being a problem as well. it was more that -- i think looking back now, i think you have to play the game right. i think you sort of have to, you know, not kiss but, but i my blog, and i'm important and whatever, but he said, you know, all the advisers have agreed that you're becoming a problem. you have to leave. i did, and i was never really invited back, so it's part of my story so -- i didn't mean to embarrass you, i just grew up watching tv, so

-- yes, sir? >> hi, i'd like to know what you think about your change on father's viewpoint on immigration policy. >> what? his immigration policy. >> it just changed to drastically. >> we are talking about arizona's infamous and that tore yows -- i'm sorry? he was asking about my father's immigration policy that got a lot of publicity this summer. i was against it. i think it was a very poorly written bill. i think you can't pull people over for being his panic. i group up in arizona, a border state and hispanic culture is a large part of arizona, and it was overblown by the media. i think it's very poorly written. i don't think it's going to go through, and i think, you know, i come from a family of imgrants

only two generations ago and immigration is a large participant of being an american. i worry at the time when we make calls on who comes to the country. i love this country. being an american is still as ronald reagan a shining beacon on a hill for people from other countries. i was against it and it's unfortunate it got the negative publicity that it did because i have friends who are small business owners in arizona who took major economic hits because of it. >> thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> hello. >> hi. >> i'm old enough to remember your father as a pow and coming back to the states and running for u.s. senate, and i've always thought those would be his legacies, and now i fear that sai rafters palin -- sarah palin will be his legacy. what are your thoughts? >> no matter where i go in my

life now, the dentist, the blackjack dealer, i want to hear about sarah palin. people are curious. her reality show is incredibly popular and her daughter is on dancing with the stars. they have safe rated the media. this is everyone wanting her. there's a need people need to feel. i say she's a drug that the media needs a hit from. this is not my doing. i'm not particularly interested anymore. whether or not she's my father's legacy, we need to be concerned about america's legacy. i think she is running for president right now. i'm personally about belief. i've been in politics long enough to know she's running. america needs to decide and republicans need to decide where we are going from here. i think my father is a rock star, and i think god forbid the

day he's no longer here, i think his legacy will stand on his own. [applause] >> thanks for coming. you have been delightful. it's terrific. what books and magazines do you read? it's a trick question. [laughter] >> you know, it's amazing i get asked this question all the time. it's like somehow i would not know the answer to that or something. people just ask women this questionment first of all, i read blogs every morning. plight koa or -- "politico" or perez hilton sometimes. i read usa today,ed new yorker, people and us weekly. i can't deny that. i read everything. i read conservative blogs, some liberal blogs, if you consider

the huffington post a liberal blog, but i like to get it all in. >> just one more comment. i think you're terrific. you go on shows that don't agree with you. >> thank you. you know, i take a lot of heat for going on especially rachel madow. and people go crazy that i'm going on her show and people can't seem to handle it, and i think if we only go on fox as republicans, if this is -- i worry more so, and i have a column coming out about this is we live in society where republicans only go on fox. think about palin running for president only just doing interviews on fox. this can in fact happen. all she has to do is twitter and facebook her message and do an interview. i worry about this. i worry about this time.

i worry about what's happening. for me, i love going on shows on fox and msnbc, i like some shows on cnn. you good to me, i'm good to you. you give me a chance to speak, you're cool. you harass me, i'll never go on your show again. >> thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> great job. two-part question. can you briefly define the principles and values that make you a republican and the principles and values that would not make you republican or even a democrat? >> gay marriage is a big one that makes me a democrat even though i don't know what democrats are doing for the gay marriage or gay rights movement at all right now. until i see president obama seeing more moves, it's hip critical to say democrats are making a gray rights movement. i'm pro-life. i think the government should stay out of our lives as much as possible. those are the three main

principles, and i'm pro-life, progay marriage republican. people don't reconcile that with who i am, but it's what i believe. i grew up christian, and it's what i continue to believe. people have a really hard time with the fact that i'm also probirth control and against abstinence and social issues come into play and strong national defense, and i continue to support the wars in afghanistan and iraq. i think that's the problem where people lose me when people very strict conservative republicans, but i am who i am, and i meet a lot of people with the same beliefs, and i'd rather be out and honest with what i believe rather than go on tv and fake it. ..

personally feel watching your father do this?

actually, to me it would seem almost like a matter of walking away from hisom principles for the expediency of politics and i wonder how you feel aboutl that? >> guest: it sounds like you were never a fan. subtle dig my father hasi necessarily walk away from his principles.wa i think the media hashi changed it was a different time and 2000 when he first ran for president broader have hard time reconciling who buy father is because he does not have a hard time reconciling who i am but i cannot delay between the personaloheem and political it s too hard i don't go home to talk about politics issom something is on the news sometimes it will come up but it is stop swearing ong lead television, meghan for i cannot live like thatan

haiti my father or beingat angry at the politicaly decisions he has made. obviously he is doing some thain popular as he was just reelected but at the end of the day senator lindsey graham and senator liebermana inspire me every single day i would not have the life i have for the believe i have if my father had not let me come on both campaigns i don't have a hard time to reconcile anything. i am sorry you feel that way but i have not. [applause] >> was it hard to tell your father i don't agree? >> no. v with him agreedag since i've was 10 yearsas old.in [laughter] they don't like me talkingo about sex that seems to be the biggest neither of them like that but it is saida natural question for college students and very though i will not talk about any

more.t that is when they say meghan police. we raise two kristian. please. [laughter] >> what is your personal strategy for helping to prevent that sarah palin does not become our next president?nt cotte clap. >> guest: a complicated question i say for the moment if i had to choose somebody i would be on a team mitt romney but my personal opinion the republican party needs to go uprt against a bomb in the general election. he is one of the most polarizing people not onlyo in our country but though world how could you everer doubt anything sarah palin says? she has made it clear to me she does not like me or my

book. i don't care. that is a relevant but ir worry where we are at i think the media can make this will then presidentr stop reporting on every single facebook update. you cannot the one right the second without seeing something about her dancing with the stars come i am not interested but the media is obsessed with her as theyr become more obsess obviously when i see a woman attacked of want to come to her defense i don't think the media realizes they make her empire ofith her followers per car believe it is possible for her to become the nominee. i can see this happening but me be south carolina or new hampshire or iowa who take

their campaigns very seriously. hypothetically maybe she will not have to get it together for the other states. >> i think you should happen on "dancing with the stars." [laughter]mpa [applause] >> hell would freeze over before i would go on dancing with the stars. not a chance.ar >> i love your book i got itd the day it came altai read it cover to cover as a fellow young republican, what are ways similar way not polarizing strictly conservative to get out or get loud it is allowed this group to say we have of voicear we are polarized we are pushed outant of the party then who wille vote? >> guest: i always say

start on line is buy far the largest audience and has been the most effective facebook, myspack,e, anything buy really is where i start. unfortunately i have a spot i am john mccain's daughter i took that and ran with itor originally that is why i amt on television hopefully now they put beyond for other reasons but the media does not cover it. they are not interested the most extreme people are the most interesting but i blame the media buy far and it worries me because i don't think an average person can get on televisionbyes ti sayingi think we should work together and i find a large tent party but to find aco candidate i will continue to work and already excited for the next general election i

work my asss off but as soon as they start announcing i will work as hard as possible every way that i can to help to make sure this generation and completely loses everything party.g republican [applause] >> guest: thank you for buying my book. >> i heard you twice a you are pro-life and i also heard you say they want government to get the hell out of our lives. how do you reconcile those two ideas? [applause] >> personally pro-life is eti di believe. i do not want to please your body i am for birth control or a i think abortion should be legal and i had tot make a lot of speeches i grew up

christian it is my personal belief. i don't want to please your body or how's your pain i don't think it will ever bteve resolved i don't know how you feel but the pro-choice movement is another but i saw a movie called in these walls could talk and it changed my impression it is unbelievably tragic of a doctor that got shot i am pro-life in general i don't want hate or hate crimes but for me personally what works, dad and i came to an understanding a long time my ago i have conflicts with my faith also i don't have all the answers. >> is that the way to say choice?pro >>m i think women should have

a choice but for me i am pro-life.r [applause] >> i am sorry but i arrived late so i do not know if you cover this but what do you think of our news soon to be how much money did ie spend, governor?e [laughter] as a republican? >> guest: it you elected him. [laughter] >> i was a fan of charlieio crist but i will support marco rubio i did not coverl florida politics as close -- as much as they should have but i was working on my father's campaign.

>> i wonder your opinion about theio on but not coming down in the midterm elections with the huge outturn in the general election? why word to say there? >> i don't think they were sexy but obama's made it sexy to get about dazed and out and vote but if you don't have the inspiring candidates my generation will not but i have voted in every single in elections since 18 bristoln palin's did not vote to this election i think that is strange ande. said that on television and i think it should be a law that you have to approach. i think anybody who does not

vote in any election plainly is an american and i do notn understand- it. >> host: what do you say toe young people to go out andle vote? >> you cannot sit and complained unless you are voting unless you exercise your right lap. >> you cannot sit around and complain and i would be humiliated to admit i did not vote to i cannot rabbi head around at and the last election was very sexy but i personally think it's just like the ulster yet it is illegal but that probably will not get past.>> [laughter] >> i am interested in your experience during the 2000 campaign how that wasif different from the 2008f experience? >> i was 14 on the first

campaign and obviously it only lasted during thet t primary i have fantasticto memories of that time going to town halls with my father watching in new hampshire playing in the snow and where it allw started but where the people were liketh henry kissinger and laters figure out who he was thinking he was a scary old guy. [laughter] as a prominent picture of american history that is where it started and amazing memories i have no memories california but my parents were a very good aet keepingt the shelteredif but i have beautiful memory is some day i want to get a house in new s

hampshire because i have an affinity for the first of the nation status that is my argument why sarah palin will not become president if you go to new hampshire you have to earn thel vote to people go to town halls twov or three or four times people take that seriously prejudicedth it is where i learned voting and understand the electoral process that is somewhat rare and started at a young age. a beautiful memory i was child. ght s a >> we are curious to your own aspirations to bring? you're legacy to fruition and? >> i do not want to run for officet because i cannot get elected i talk too much, too honest, i will tell my lifei' story to the cabdriver

anything you want to know. [laughter] i twitter all the time a woman like me could not geti r elected i had peoplee interested in me working which was unbelievably the g flattering i want to do itebo again to get a republicane electedct and go kick obama's ass and do anything i can to get there. [applause] five lead like to be a strategist it was a male-dominated industry i know some candidates would not wants be near themt but to express some interest.o >> i had to see the tea party movement was notnt really taking into account but quite frankly it was the

tea party movement that motivated me to get out to do things because i feltn like the republican party hass abandoned its people. what in the world is the republican party standing for?o >> guest: i would never dismiss the tea party movement because thea matter feel it is a forcet to be reckoned with but i expect share in a goal to win and joe miller to win i did not expect its policy to still be in office. -- lisa murkowski is the first candidate to win as a write in over 50 years. it is over hyped. if it were really that big, jon stewart and stephen colbert were able to triple the tea party

numbers at this rally, it says something. i would never belittle the tea party. i understand why people are angry. spending is out of control. obama has done little to nothing. i'm just as scared as everybody else about a lot of things going on. i think it's poorly organized. i don't understand the message. if sarah palin is the leader, i'm not getting behind it. >> well, i don't consider sarah palin the leader. but i think that -- >> do you have have? with all respect do you know who the leader is? >> no. that's because it is grassroots. basically the whole things seems to be get the -- you know, go back to the constitution, stop trampling the constitution, stop spending so much money that no one can repay. >> listen, i'm as frustrated as you are. i completely agree. >> i just feel like the republican party better start listening to what some of the people are saying. you know, there is a message.

and the republican party has the ability to put that forward. >> i think what's going to happen, i honestly think the potential to happen that we are going to throw everybody out. i don't think it's just going to be republicans. i think we're going to get to a place. then politics will really be fascinates when complete antigovernment candidates are running the government. i am so excited to see what rand paul does. i cannot wait. i'm glad that he got elected. i want to see the libertarianism, if he does a good job, there's your leader. >> okay. thank you so very much. before we end, i want to bring this to a very different light. and say those of you who are sitting in the front, they can see the shoes. geo has the latest greatest sneakers.

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