his budget called for $1.30 trillion of tax increases on the american people. $90 billion in the increases on the oil and gas industry. who is going to pay for that? exxon? that is going to be paid by the people who are pumping gas into their cars. it makes economic growth less likely and job creation more difficult. the same is true in spending. the obama administration is populated by people who have unlimited in limited government -- limitless government. they think a bigger government means a bigger economy. a bigger government means a smaller economy. [applause] when the government sucks all

the money out of the economy, how is the private sector supposed to create jobs? the date on this is simple. when government spending goes up, private investment -- the date on this is simple -- data on this is simple. when private investment goes up, unemployment goes down. private investment goes up, more people are working. remember, that is our goal. when we talk about cutting spending, we are talking about cutting spending for our children and grandchildren. we are talking about cutting spending because of the effects on the deficit and the debts. . we need to cut spending to grow the economy. your family cannot spend itself rich.

the government cannot spend itself rich either. if you took the president also budget after the move to the meiddle, it called for the deficit to go up $1.60 trillion. just imagine you are running your business that way, taking a and 43% less than you spend. -- taking in 43% less than you spend. if you wrote a book, you would start it with chapter 11. [applause] it is not just capture -- not just taxes and spending. look at health care. steve was up here talking about health care. the government run health care system is not in the interest of anybody in the night -- in the united states except the government.

that is what we will get if we get obamacare. i have been in these wars were years and years. betsy is going to speak after me. she was deeply involved in the hillary-care issue. i never thought the point of health care was to make health insurance premiums go up. how do employers hire more people when they do not know what their obligations or costs for health care of those employees will be. obama's policies hurt job creation, stymie economic growth, and perhaps the worst is his energy policy. the obama energy policy is to drive up the cost of energy so that americans will use less of it. think about it. that is their policy.

i can remember president obama himself when he was a candidate for president interviewed by the "san francisco chronicle." he said, electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket. necessarily skyrocket. the estimate was 30% to 50%. how you grow the economy when costs are going up for businesses and families? that is what they are trying to do. it is really environmental policy, not energy policy. a real energy policy would be more american energy. that is what we need in our country. [applause] as gasoline blows by $3.50 a gallon, remember how this administration has shut down oil production in the gulf of mexico. in the gulf, we produce 30% of

the domestic production of oil in the united states. the administration quickly announced that this week and last week we gave to permits for drilling in the gulf. you had to read the fine print to find out they were not permits for new wells. they work permits to resume drilling on wells they had forced them to stop drilling on. we need more oil. we need more gas. we need more coal. we need more nuclear. we need more american energy. [applause] that includes alternatives. my state is a center for biofuels. we have an ethanol plant in mississippi. we generate energy from other

things. from would -- from wood, from waste. we need all of the above. when we talk about more american energy, we need all of the above. we need efficiently and conservation. from the time the british dropped anger in jamestown, what of our advantages has been -- in jamestown,or one of our advantages has been abundant energy. we need more. [applause] psychiatrists say it is a mistake to stifle the urge to applaud. [laughter] if it is not bad for you, it is bad for me.

i appreciate your perseverance. [laughter] you can see as we look through the policies of this administration why we want to the next election to be about policy. these are the wrong policies. these policies make it harder for us to create jobs. we should not ever forgets that the goal is not to cut spending for the sake of cutting spending. the goal is to grow the economy. the goal is to return to the chance where every young man and woman can live the american dream and see the opportunities in front of them. when we talk about these policies, i urge you to remember the most important thing. cutting spending is the means to an end. the end is to can you to grow

our economy, to continue to improve the quality of life for americans. my old friend and fellow mississippian, fred smith, the ceo and founder of federal express has a great saying. he says the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. [laughter] the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. the main thing is economic growth and job creation for our people. [applause] that will solve a multitude -- do the math on what 4.5% growth in gdp would do for our budget deficit. look at ronald reagan's time after the 1978 to 1982

recessionary. period. the economy was growing 9%. this economy is growing 2.8%. most of that growth is because of this gigantic bill louche of federal spending. -- deluge of federal spending. we need to grow the private economy. that needs to be our primary focus. growing the economy takes a change of policy. why is it worth so much? think about the people who came to iowa or the people who came to mississippi or the people came to america. seeking religious freedom. many of them, yes. they also knew what ronald reagan knew. religious freedom, and religious

-- religious freedom and political freedom are intertwined with economic freedom. [applause] with the power to make our own decisions, to have a country where anywhere anybody can make the most of their god-given talents and there will be a reward for that in a market oriented, capitalistic system. that system has created more wealth, more opportunity, a greater, stronger, more powerful country and a culture that had never been imagined before in the history of the world. it was created right here in america. an exceedingly exceptional country.

i wish we had some people in this administration who had signed the front side of a paycheck in their lives. [applause] some people who understand it is the private sector that creates wealth. the government has no money except what it takes from the taxpayers. we need taxpayers to have the opportunity. they do not need the government elite in washington to tell them what to do. this administration to often thinks we are too stupid to take care of our -- too often thinks we ought to banks to bid to take care of ourselves. they need -- this go administration thinks we are too

stupid to take care of our citizens. i am grateful for your being here and for having the chance to say to you that we need to make sure our children and grandchildren inherits the same country we inherited. that is what this election will be about. thank you very much. [applause] l analyst for the fox news channel. ladies and gentlemen, speaker newt gingrich. [applause]

>> first of all, it is great to be here. i am proud of what steve king has done in bringing this together. i am proud of what steve king is doing in washington to defund and stop obamacare, where he is playing a major leadership role. i am glad to be back. i will probably reinforce for steve that what he is doing is really important. we have to draw the line in the sand this year. we have to stop obamacare from being implemented this year. this is a major step toward a washington controlled,

bureaucratically defined america in which some bureaucrat tells you what you can do. if you go to health transformation.net you will see that there is a big poster that you can get and download for free. it has 1968 specific grants of power to the secretary of health and human services and other washington bureaucrat in obamacare. you look at that list and say to yourself, is there anybody in this room who honestly believes that the federal bureaucracy can implement that level of detail control over your health care, including what the secretary of human services shall define as the characteristics of measuring your teeth for oral care. i spoke to an orthodontist and

said how many of you believe secretary sebelius has the knowledge to define the to coverage of oral care. they broke up laughing. it is not a laughing matter. steve king understands that. he is turning up the heat in washington. i hope all of you will continue encouraging them to do that. i hope you will listen to him and all his leadership on this important issue. [applause] we are delighted to be back here. she spent four years getting to know i will winters better. she is from western wisconsin so she thought of it as going south for the winter. i am optimistic. i believe that in 2012, we could win an historic election and we

could end the 80 year dominance of the left and fundamentally recent this country back to a center-right government reflecting the core values of the american people. [applause] i think there are three large topics on which we can recent america. the first is values. this is truly a center right country, not a left wing country. the second is the economy. this is a country that favors jobs, paychecks, and economic growth. the third is economic -- is national security. gallup asked the question, do you believe that the constitution and the declaration of independence make america an exceptional country, or do you believe we are a normal country?

by 80 to 18, the american people said we are an exceptional country. the 18 includes many of our bureaucrats, many of our news media. the fight we are in, where we outnumber them better than 4 to 1 is to say we actually mean it. to say that every class, k-12 and every tax paid college and university should teach the declaration of independence -- [applause] i do not care what the aclu says, they should teach it accurately and they should explain what the founding

fathers meant by saying "we hold these truths" -- not philosophies or ideologies -- " to be self-evident and we are in doubt by our creator with certain inalienable rights." some say we should stay away from values and stay away from social issues. if you do not start with values or start by establishing who we are as americans, the rest of it does not matter. life is not just about money. [applause] second, we have to talk about the economy. it's a matter of values. america works when americans are working. america works when you can

provide for your family. i want to create wealth so that every american has a chance for a better future. they are being productive and engaged in useful work. they are doing something that is meaningful for them. we have to get this economy growing again. we have to focus on cutting spending in washington, getting power back out of washington, controlling the bureaucrats who are trying to control us, and making it desirable and successful to invest and create jobs in america so that we can have a better future. the president in brazil got it exactly backward. present obama goes to brazil and says to brazilians, i am glad you are drilling for oil offshore. then he says, i hope we can be your customer. that is exactly backwards. i want us to create american energy in america. i want resilience to be our customers.

-- i want the people of brazil to be our customers. [applause] the obama economic model is borrow money from the chinese and give it to the brazilians. our model ought to be and that in america, create american jobs -- our model ought to be create american jobs and sell products to the chinese bid is the opposite of the model of obama. -- create american jobs and sell products to the chinese. it is the opposite model of obama. i help to balance the american budget for four straight years. -- i helped to balance the budgets for four straight years.

this shocked so many people in washington. we quit spending. it is amazing how much that to you get to a balanced budget he quit spending. we had the slowest increase in modern times. the four years i was speaker, we did not raise taxes. we cut taxes. we had the largest capital gains tax in american history. we wanted to put people back to work. we designed tax cuts that made it possible to create businesses. if you want to balance this federal budget, the north thing you can thing do is have people back to work

so they are not getting food stamp or unemployment or medicaid. the difference in spending and revenue in that that is the number one step back to a balanced budget. there are things you want the government to stop doing. you can probably disband 2/3 of the department of energy. we would have more energy. [applause] we have to focus on a serious conversation about national security. there were articles last week say i was one way or the other about libya. each day i was on television, i was responding to where the president was that way. there were contradictions because one day he was here and

the other day he was over here. they can say i was commenting both ways. that is true. i was trying to follow him up. if you had asked me if we should jump in, i would have said no. ke, i sayump in the lat to swim as fast as you can. it is not a contradiction if you are already in the lake. on march 3, he said gaddafi has to go. he pitted the prestige and power of the united states against a dictator that has been anti- american for over 40 years. i believe the only rational objective of the current intervention is to defeat gaddafi as rapidly as possible. i would do it by using egyptian, jordanian ground

forces as advisers with the rebels, using all western air power as decisively as power. a no-fly zone does not just mean airplanes. i think this is linguistically stupid. i have never seen a flying tank. [laughter] if they want to create a suppressions own to defeat the libyan military, then the honest and say that is what we're doing. it is a totally different process. once you get involved, i believe you get involved decisively. you win quickly and minimize casualties. you get it over quickly. you say you are getting rid of gaddafi because you want his military to get up every morning to the simple message that he is gone. [applause] if you are of the libyan military and wondering if the

americans are serious and whether you can hold out -- you watch our white house arguing. i want to say to the things about foreign policy. we have to risk the lives of young americans. we have to have the courage to tell the truth about who is trying to kill us. it is not a random behavior. it is radical islamists motivated by deep belief against our situation. -- against our civilization. [applause] we need a commander in chief with the courage to tell the truth, not a spectator in chief confused about whether his job is kicking a soccer ball or leading the united states. last week on national security, i am and historian. --lastly, on national security,

i am and historian. someone explained the unit in nations and arab league. i went back because as a historian, i did not remember this. we were up at independence hall with the constitution and the declarations of independence. i went back to check. you can do this with your own copy of the constitution. i could not find the arab league anywhere in the constitution. [laughter] i found congress. i found the idea that the president might consult with the united states congress. but to say to americans that he is relying on a collection of dictators called the arab league and a corrupt institution called the united nations -- he did not get around to consulting the congress. that is it fundamentally false model of american government. [applause]

people ask how quick you could start turning things around. we are working on a project from the first day. all of you who have watched inauguration's know that the president goes inside to have lunch with the congressional leadership after the inauguration. what if there was a one hour break in the president went into a room in the capital and signed executive orders that were already discussed and on the internet, that had already been drafted by veterans from the reagan and bush administrations? you could do this within minutes to begin turning the government around. the first executive order might be to abolish every bizarre -- czar in the white house as of

that minute. [applause] the second executive order might be to reimpose ronald reagan's mexico city policy and abolish any federal money going anywhere in the world to pay for abortion. [applause] the third executive order might be to reinstitute george w. bush's policy on enforcing the right of conscience and that no government can force you to perform an abortion or any other act against europe religious beliefs. [applause] a fourth executive order might say to the state department that you will allow companies to designate their own capital. the only country in the world where the united states refuses to allow the country to define its own capital is the democracy

of israel. it is profoundly wrong to discriminate against the israeli government's right to do that. [applause] imagine that during the campaign next year, there was a web site called ontheveryfirstday.com where people could submit their ideas. you have enormous capacity to direct things and say what to do or not to. imagine during the year the citizens found things that should be fixed and put them on the web. it would not be a secret. then we would have smart people evaluate them. imagine that by next october of 2012, you had 200 executive orders that smart people all over the country have come up with. there were technically written.

on inauguration day, you just have to put them out. everyone would know what was coming. it would be transparent. it would be the sort of thing that obama promised but did not deliver on. [applause] you could even allow c-span in the room to cover you signing executive orders. you could post on the internet what was done. when i was speaker, i used to check off as we did things in the congress. there is a huge difference between obama and the left and 80% of the american people. we can turn it around with remarkable speed if we have courage. you are coming here today and helping steve king is a first step toward that kind of courage. thank you all very, very much. [applause]

>> hi, everyone. isn't it exciting to be here? there is no place like iowa. we love it. and it's wonderful to be in a state where you have the king of conservatism, steve king. my colleague. [applause]

steve and i are actually a match, i think. in washington, d.c. we like to get in the same arena. we like to fight the same fights beginning with one of the fights that president obama brought to us. does anyone remember the $1 trillion stimulus bill? and we were all promised that we would never see unemployment go above 8% if we spent $1 trillion. right? so let me ask you a question. did president obama correctly diagnose the problem with job creation? did he have the correct solution with spending $1 trillion? what's his level of credibility on job creation? not so much. that's right. iowans are very intelligent people. besides being extremely good looking. and very well tempered. also another area that steve and i have teamed and worked a lot on is the issue of obama

care. the government takeover of health care. let me z you. did the president correctly diagnose the problem with health care in this country? it was high cost. wasn't it? the high cost of health care. did he correctly diagnose the solution? no. he didn't understand that free markets would help us bring the cost down. what's his credibility on obama care? not so much. that's right. oh, we're working here. ok. so now remember when the president talked about how during the obama care negotiations all of the negotiations would be like this today, what steve king is providing for you on c-span? did that happen? what's the president's level of credibility? not so much. now, i want to remind you. that's not to mention that the president was 0-4 last year in his final 4 predictions. do you remember that? ok.

we'll let him have that. now he has us engaged in yet another third middle eastern war. so ink talk about march madness. can anyone say jimmy carter? that's kind of where we're going. but i am here in iowa because this 2012 election is extremely important. how many of you feel the same way? oh, yes. all of our chips are riding on 2012. number one, they have to clearly diagnose and understand the times that we're living in. number two, they have to have solutions for the problems that america is facing. and number three and perhaps even more important is they have to have the political courage to stand up to the interests, stand up to washington, d.c., stand up to the big spenders and do what has to be done. that's what we need in our

candidate for 2012. because we are a nation of risk takers. that is how the nation started. i am an iowaen. i was born here in iowa almost 55 years ago to the week and i am a seventh generation iowaen. that's even better. my forebearers were big tall strapping. norwegians who casme from -- came from norway. they risked everything to pack up their five children and come to iowa because they heard that this was a land of milk and honey. and it's all true. isn't it? it's all true. iowa is the land of milk and honey. look, we have one person clap for iowa being the -- i agree

with you. i think you're absolutely right. thank you. and yet everything that my great great great grand parents worked for that your ancestors worked for is at risk today. isn't it? it's at risk today. and what happens between now and november 6 of 2012 especially here in iowa will forge the difference with what happens in 2012. do you think you're up to it? i know you're up to it. i know you are. because what we are about to determine is whether or not quite frankly we will pass the american dream on to the next generation. this is faithfully happened at least for the seven generations that i know of here in iowa. but for the generations that add up to approximately 20 generations of american history, every generation has

faithfully passed that torch of liberty to the next one. but we know what's at risk. and i want to share briefly with you a few statistics. let's start with the number 75. 75% as a matter of fact. that is the amount the national debt has increased just under the four years that nancy pelosi held the gavel. it took us 231 years to establish something over $8 trillion in debt. it took her four years to run up $6 trillion more in deficit to get us up to $14 trillion. of course that made our chinese banker friends very happy. and you know that the chinese leader is named president hu. so now we know that hu is your daddy. so here's -- who says iowa doesn't have a sense of humor.

it's born right here. 107 trillion. that's enough to curl your hair. 107 trillion. that's the estimated number of unfunded net federal liabilities in social security and medicare. and when today's college students retire, my son for instance who is 24 years of age, they are looking upwards of 37% of their income just going to pay that figure. let alone another 25% or so for their federal income tax let alone their state income tax let alone property tax, sales tax, let alone gas tax, let alone their every time you turn around tax and they will have a very different future than the ones our parents left for us. the next number 35%. that is now the highest corporate tax rate in the world. and it's in the united states of america. you only need to look at this number to know why we have outsourcing of jobs.

we want the united states to be the best place for job creation in the world. and we can be. cut taxes so that we can have jobs here in the united states beginning with iowa. now, here's a very scary number for all of you. 3.8 million. what could that be? the i.r.s. can't even teleyou. this is pralkly the number of words in the tax code. happy reading. 3.8 million words. how many of you are filling out your tax forms right now? i'm a former federal tax lawyer. i've read some of these words. it's no fun. let's make it simple. what about fairer? anybody like a fair tax or a flat tax? i think it could safely be said that our current united states tax code is a weapons of mass

destruction bloling let's look at the number one. that's the number of drilling permits since they came into office. gee, maybe that has something to do be this next figure. $1.83. that is the price of gasoline the day before barack obama took office as president of the united states. is it time for a change? absolutely. i'm an entrepreneur with my husband. we've created 50 jobs in the state of minnesota. we're proud of that. you cannot create jobs when you have a president that is unwilling to use american energy resources to solve our problems here in the united states. let's look at our next number. 19 of 20. hmm. what could that be? that's the number of major metropolitan markets here in the united states where home prices have fallen in just the

last quarter. what do you think the one major metropolitan area is washington, d.c. where the money is big it never shuts off. why? because they have iowa's money in washington, d.c. let's bring it back home. let's bring it back to iowa. 129. we have 129 miles that are currently under control at our southern border out of 2,000 miles. that is ain credible statistic. that is the highest level of -- 129 miles. let me read to you from the department of homeland security a senior official who said, human smuggling constitutes a significant risk to our national security and public safety and could potentially be exploited by terrorists and other extremist organizations seeking entry.

how many of you think that qualifies for one of the greatest understatements in our time? that is absolutely true. let's go to our next set of numbers. 6,000. that's how many pages of rules has already been written in washington, d.c. to implement obama care. and you thought that a 2700 bill was unwieldy? this is a bill that will never finish being written. because washington will continue to redefine the government takeover of health care. let's go to our next number. more than 1,000. that's the number of waivers that have already been granted to obama care. is something missing here? aren't we a nation that is equal protection under the law? i guess it's more equal for some than for others when you grant waivers to obama care. in fact, one of steve king's and my colleagues this week, anthony weiner from new york came out and -- now, we're nice

here in iowa. i just want to remind you. and anthony weiner said he wanted a waiver from obama care. now, this is rich. because our colleague anthony weiner said that he wrote the bill for obama care. in fact, his quote was the bill and i are one. now, if anthony weiner wants a waiver, i want mine too. i want a waiver from the last two years of president obama. are you with me? let's go to our last number. i think because of the great work that steve king has been doing and i've been trying to do we've tried to let the country know about this figure. 105 billion 464 million. does anybody know what i'm referring to? this was the money that was hiden in plain sight in the

obama care bill in order to pre-fund the obama care. i believe that president obama needs to give this money back to the american people. [applause] you won't find one newspaper story, one radio show or one tv story about this money. you can't just do this to the american people. fail to testimony them that when your representative votes for the takeover of health care they're also voting for 105 billion to fund it? you can't just do that. that's why they have to give the money back and that's why also steve king and i have worked very hard in our nation's capital together with other colleagues who have figured out what a problem obama care is. every member of the house of representatives voted to repeal obama care. and now we are calling on them

to vote to defund obama care by agreeing to not pass one more spending bill unless president obama gives this money back. [cheers and applause] we've seen what all of these problems are. but the real problem that underlines all of these figures is this. it's the fact that washington, d.c. truly believes that all power and all money should be air gated to them so that they can run and control your lives. is that what thomas jefferson and our founders wrote in the declaration of independence and then in the constitution of the united states? i don't think so. thomas jefferson said he could see into the future that big government would be the problem. he said let's bind them down with the constitution. weren't they wise in what they wrote?

that was very wy because what they understood is that the solution to our problems was not washington, d.c. because what did they do? they come up with really great ideas like cowboy poetry festival. that's a must have. or like telling you which kind of light bulb you have to go down to your hard ware store and buy. and by the way, just so you know, i introduced the light bulb freedom of choice act. yes. i think iowaens are to be trusted on the choice of their own libetbubs. and who can access the internet and what are schools can teach? we don't need them to give us the answers to those questions. the ultimate arrogance in my opinion coming out of washington is obama care. because obama care will decide who your doctor is ultimately. they will say oh no we aren't.

oh, yes they will. with this bill we're all going to be spending more and getting less. now think of that. you get less you spend more. what a deal what a deal. no wonder last year every week that rasmussen has been taking a poll never once has it gone below a majority of americans. not just conservatives, not just republicans. but never below a majority of americans who want to see obama care repealed. as a matter of fact, this last week it was 62%, the highest number of americans yet that want to see us repeal obama care. [applause] this is i believe the greatest power grab that we have ever seen and i believe it is a crime against our constitutional republic because the debt clock is ticking and it's changing now forever.

we've seen how this movie is going to end. we've seen it in greece. it's not a pretty picture. we've seen it in the u.k. we've seen it in spain. it's not a pretty picture. we've seen it in madison, wisconsin. it is not a pretty picture. and so again the president is making the wrong calls. he's making the wrong calls. and i'm thankful that we have republicans standing up like governor scott walker in wisconsin, governor casic in ohio. they're standing up. for less government, for more freedom. and again, the constitution holds the answer. this venerable document. gee, i don't think it was 2700 pages long. it said this. we, the people we are the answer to the problem today in the united states. because you need to be put back in charge of your own health care. you need to be allowed to create jobs because you're the

only one who knows how to create jobs. the federal government doesn't have a clue how to create jobs. you do. and you can choose what cars you drive. not what cars are. you can choose what light bulbs. you can choose all of these things. we don't need the government because you understand the solution for taxing, for protecting our borders, and research backs it up. it is families that are the solution and the ultimate building block for america. because no stimulus, no entitlement reform, no health care initiative, no educational revamp can match the power of an intact, two parent family and driving economic growth health and well being in the united states. [applause] and i come from a family where my parents did divorce.

i understand the difficulty and the difficulty that is single parents have. and this is not to den grate them in any way. but it's also to say our government needs to prefer a tax code and a policy that prefers family formation and the building up of families so that children have a safe environment to grow up because no one loves them more than mom and dad. no government agency, no government bureaucrat. it's mom and dad. we've been told that we need a truce on social issues and i would highly disagree with that because the truth is social conserveatism is fiscal conserveatism. i mentioned just briefly about the fair tax. i am as a tax lawyer as i told you earlier, my opinion is this. we make the tax code simpler by

first abolishing it. so abolish what we have. and from there we're going to fly. i have no douth. we need a change in size, we need a change in attitude because the attitude and arrogance of washington, d.c. having the answers is just not working out. because that is not what our forebearers understood that's not what i understand. that's not what you understand. that's not what our children need in the future. what we need is a change in address form for the person that's living at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. [applause] when my forebearers came here in the 1850s they did not come here for handout, they did not come here for the government takeover of health care. they came here because they were wide eyed with excitement at what the future would bring ultimately for a seventh

generation iowaen granddaughter and they were willing to risk all to make it happen. they bore the fruit of courageously waging inch by inch, yard by yard, vote by vote the a battle for freedom that we are the grateful recipients for what they have done. which takes me back to another dark horse candidate. you may have heard of him from a large near by state. his name was abraham lincoln. and when he won his very doubtful election which no one thought that he could win, he took a whittle stop tour and he stopped off at indianapolis, indiana and the nation was on the precipus of war. his own life and presidency was in danger and abraham lincoln poured his heart out to the crowd at indianapolis as they gathered and i want to quote from abraham lincoln's words. he said, i appeal to you

constantly to bear in mind that it's not with the politicians and it is not with presidents and it is not with office seekers but it is with you, and that is the question. shall the union and shall the liberties of this country be preserved to the latest generation? and what lincoln said at the back of the train is still true today. it's with you. it's with you to make that decision. will we survive to the latest generation? will we survive? and as i am here listening and speaking to people in iowa, i say to you as wonderful as steve king is, don't look to stee king. don't look to me. don't look to any other politician because the preservation of our nation, the preservation of liberty is too

important to entrust it with mere politicians. the idea of liberty is so great and yet so precious that the founders recognized they could only be entrusted with the brain trust. and that's the people of this nation. because they understood that it was our values that were the underpinning of this nation. john adams wrote, it is only from moral and religious nation this constitution that we write. it is wholely unsuited for any other. and that's not saying what kind of religion a person has to have or if they have to be religious at all. but what it is saying is that you cannot build a nation unless it is built upon a rock solid foundation. and america has that. it is the character and values

of our people. and that is why i am so absolutely confident in 2012 because that hasn't gone away. in fact what i've seen is the character and the strength and the morals and the values of the american people are getting more and more excited because america has made their decision. they've decided we are going to take our country back. we are going to be our solution. we are going to be -- have a better day. and so america has decided they're in for 2012. and so that's my question to you today here in iowa. are you in? are you in for 2012? are you going the make it happen? are we going to take our country back? i agree with you. i say we do. i'm in. you're in. we will take this back in 2012. thank you for having me here today. thank you everyone. have a great conference.

thank you.