each of us can take into account and think about, most importantly what you are addressing is a great role for individuals, everyone of us to rethink the challenge you are suggesting for corporations and the nation. what you suggest is critical and those that read the book are listening, raising the challenge of china as a threat to is very, very powerful especially coming from someone with major corporations in china as well. we definitely have to develop a strategy at the national level as corporations and individuals but hoping that everybody

takes very seriously that everybody should visit china and we do have steady tumors in china to take advantage of. but if you suggest a way of challenging, this is the core of focusing the simple things don't think about. so with the sustainability, how do achieve those? and in every area. many thanks for joining us and of letting us and would you offer that? as a role model of a courageous leader so to implement this thank you so much for joining us and to enrich all of us.

[applause] >> thank-you very much for everybody here. i appreciate your time taking the time out and coming with an interesting conversation, it really is the thrill to be here because my first memory is in on the '70s i was a very young girl and i would run up and down the corridor back then you could take the elevators down and go

through the tunnel without security and many times i would get lost and pop back of some marvell said the capitol building will library of congress but this is where i spend a lot of my time growing up. for me, it is a particular thrill to be back in the rayburn house and thank you for having me here. it is an honor. getting back on my personal background, why i think particularly at this point* in our nation's history, why this book and founding documents in the history of the nation are so very important because we are a very important crossroads as a country to figure out who are we as a country which we believe? the best place to start this is to look at our documents

and history that drove it "the essential american." the key to the clare booth luce policy group i told a friend was coming year and i have known data over a decade and worked for my father at the american enterprise institute and got the job because she can to washington to look for a job and came to one of thesess events, network and the next thing she knew she spent aç decade of life working for newt gingrich. you never know who you may meet. interestingly enough those in the fourth symphony lovers was the first violinist for the washington symphony for a long time and retired when a year ago and

then they also met at a meet and greet and now lives in georgette. you never know. my first memory of d.c. was in the '70s who before my dad one. just with my background and his career it is important to understand rate came from and why it is important. if you can imagine the 1970's may be around 74 we lived in georgia because my father went to every and two link to get his ph.d. in part of the deal is he got a scholarship money if the promise to come back to georgia when he finished to teach. when he finished he found a job offer at one place.

that is where he went. he had two young girls we lived in carrollton georgette. so we pack up from a big train trip we were getting ready and coming down the big hill and my grandmother trip to and broker legg. i remember because my sister had to find somebody to push somebody around but grandmother brought on the train and road it the whole way here but you can imagine a little little girl riding the train going into the dining car sitting down at an elegant table with white tablecloths and looking out

the window to see the potomac the washington monument. and the feeling i had it new-line entered the nation's capital. later i learned at the top is says praise be to god as the sun rises every day and also strike the phrase be to god. so there really is a special city and for those who live here you can occasionally forget that but it is important to remember that it is a very special city. my first political memory is of the 1974 campaign. a little girl from georgia 1974 my father decides to

run for congress as a republican. back then there were no republicans from georgia rally. brought a coke, calloway and my father. they are in a little room together and that was it. he decided to run because that meant he ran against jack at the time was this dean of the georgia delegation. the most senior person i am sure people told him it was not a good idea and i know we have a granddaughter somebody who remembers so we do have a long history in georgette. we ran really hard and if you remember 1974 it was a time of watergate burglar you can imagine what must

have been like to run as a republican in georgette. he ran and at the end of the term we had the victory party and i can remember dad sitting there with his yellow legal pad in back then we did not have the great mouse you have somebody call from a preissing to here are the votes. dad will lead to write them down and remember him add them up. he is pretty good at math he would add them up again as if it would change the answer. unfortunately it didn't. he lost 45% to does not matter by how much but he did not complain or cry. we got up early and went to

the ford factory and we shook hands. thank you for your help. then the same thing happened 1976 he knew he had a chance until the republican primary and jimmy carter was getting ahead and he knew it would be a tough race because we're in georgette. wrote jimmy carter ran a great race and dads said he thought he had a chance when he stood at the library which was our polling place and the saab the buses pulled up. he realized the buses were not there to vote for newt gingrich but for somebody else. that night he added up again and again and he lost. 48 point* 3%. what do you do the next

morning? we went back to the ford factory and thank you for your help we will be back again. my mother tells a great story that i heard briefly about the history and the family and then to run again mom said she remembers running into a friend who said he will not let him run again? he just can't progress if he loses it will be embarrassing. as if the first two were not [laughter] but my mom had such a great answer. who am i to kill the dream? of course, i will. he wants to run. now we know that he ran and he run with the 1994 republican resurgence. i tell the story not to say

that he lost a lot, because it is embarrassing but persistence matters÷ but that we as a people needs persistence because that would make a difference. as thomas jefferson said all they need is to remain silent. we need to be very, very aware. we cannot be silent. we have to have the ability to stand up to speak what we think is important as a nation. today more than ever, the conservatives, and no offense. now you know, that you will hear something bad.

but particularly women conservatives are incredibly important it is our time to step up to be proactive and i will talk about that. i would like to think we're on a journey with the central american and i think we have a bright future we are in. the one people in the nation we are the link between the history and a bright future and it is our job, our future is based on our ability to speak up to articulate the very clear vision of a great future for everybody to be engaged in. we have such a compelling picture people want to join

in and want to be helpful and be a part of it. we have to remind people of our right and responsibility of americans. we're predicated on the understanding and belief that we all have equal and articulate the vision that resonates. my little girl plays violin she is not a great but she is good and we know if she plays well you can feel it you can feel that resonating. here at the first year it does resume but we have to be able to articulate the vision that resonates with the majority of americans and they can understand and feel it in their bodies. now to talk about the founding of our country, also where i think

we need to go. one that clearly states our creator gave people rights and if you think about this as what we are and what we are not, self-evident means it is truthful and we need to have a society and government based on truth. when we say equal, that we are created equal. this is a real challenge for us as a society and will hurt people's feelings. but the reality is coming in the end you have to have people do better than others because they work hard. you cannot have a society where people get to the same things in the end. we talk about endow by a creator, a god giving us

power that the power comes from god not that the government decides what power we will have. a very different paradigm. talk about life liberty pursuit of happiness but also we have to remember that means you can pursue it. that is very different i have a nine and an 11 year-old. those are great ages they are very fun than annual does a little boy and that the 11 year-old as the girl we get into these discussions they are frustrated with me because they are not happy i have to remind them that is not my job. it is not my job to make them happy. it is my job to discipline them and love them and encourage them and it is their job to figure out how to be happy. that is hard for us to do as a country. but talk about what women do

and why they are so important of where we are politically, if you're not a normal woman to not take offense but in general, i have a system that is 3-1/2 years older and is amazing. probably the best manager that i know because she cares about everybody that works with her. what they feel and what they're doing and she pulled all of the strengths and figure out how to use those together is an incredible manager and very talented but women have the skill of how the unit together to create a team versus one that always competes against each other? the other thing is because

by nature they give birth and are the mother, women are much more for thinking because we always thinking about what is the next generation? we worry about our children, their future, so to think by design we do worry about what is coming up. we care for children also to develop patience. one of the biggest points of having children is i am developing more patience. one of these things i have experienced is the was does somebody watch our children they were instructed to do xyz which is amazing but

they said you just tell them and they do it. 4,000 times. and one of the things about parenting is you begin to repeat yourself and it is very repetitious and deliver it. and without screaming always helps. [laughter] so to save they say the same thing over and over hoping eventually you'll hear somebody say they have the nicest manners. yes man and no man and you hear that. it makes you happy. mince -- women also create a nest in my husband laughs at that but that place of safety or relaxation it allows for people to knit

together and sometimes i think as a society we laugh out that that we do not need a nice place but it is true because you do need the sanctuary. i was talking to somebody last week who said it is interesting how much information you get a new car pool sometimes those of the best discussions with my children you hear about what is happening and the nice thing is that leaves the home as a place to be saved. not all people have that ability but one of the things i have found is to make sure my home is a place that is safe. that is what they tried to do go places in the community fatter save. so that we need to use those same skills. had been in it together

communities how to over andover repeat the same thing without getting frustrated because it may take a long time. i know that i have a lot of weaknesses. but the four fundamental values are very important one of the reasons i wrote to "the essential american" because it reminds us that words matter bracket is very shocking to hear that but words have grave importance they create reality therefore results will be very careful not only what we read but think with our ideas so they ask us to do

more or to be more and provide clarity so when reagan said mr. gorbachev of teardown that while he said i hope it does not fall down on its own. he said tiered down the wall. very clear. when we think of the future it is important to understand the past which is a core belief. do we have family stories when i told about my dad losing twice i tell that to to my children and they fail to have to get up and be gracious and cannot give up. a few family stories, my grandmother was raised in a farm. and in rural area that makes it look like mitropoulos.

[laughter] we do not have good records how old she was either 19111913 but she was part evade farming family that did not own the land they just work did which means everybody had to participate. everybody was involved. so when she told her negative she wanted to go to columbus georgia he was not happy. he needed those hands. so her mother literally gave her, her a bloody and her father did not send your but she went and got her are in degree of which was a huge event i tell this story to my children because they need to know revalue

education as is what you think is right for you. you'll be glad to know when her father became sick later in life he of course, was there and took care of himhu. which is very important and he was very grateful. my mother is the oldest of four children was told you may get out and in three years and years sister will go after you or your sister will go after you but we do not have enough to send the same year. he went and graduated with a degree in mass which was unusual and got out in the three years and became a high school math teacher. we value education and my sister kathy in a similar story my sister had with arthritis.

if you have never seen this it is incredibly debilitating. she has-- 67 years ago where literally could not get not out of bed and had to be lifted out of bed and began taking the drug that transformed her life. it did not fix anything but stopped the problems of the disease. so decided she wanted to raise money for arthritis and would walk a marathon. that is 26 miles. she asked if i would help raise money. of course. all i could think about is i will have to carry her. she will never make it. luckily she is very little and i could carry her if i

had to but of course, she made it through just fine what the seven hours 47 minutes we raise $40,000. we have done it to other times in raise $146,000. you really can't do incredible things if you put your mind to it. in terms of the nation's story that i want to highlight today, if you think about the revolutionary war period women are not in front of the group but left behind with the children but did you look at abigail adams you see a woman who clearly was very, very bright and highly educated asking gore eight questions. when you read the letters letters, she gives him the next thing to do.

one of the things is she reminds him every member feels for us just like those that say remember the people in georgette or california or texas? she reminded him of the people at home and also if the government is to be established, what one? how do you form this government? so clearly not only providing stability but intellectually challenging him and to think about the right form of direct. jeanne kirkpatrick is very, very brighthaupt who was a democrat originally and was very concerned in the '70s because of the way foreign policy was unfolding and we

do get very concerned with riled reagan running for office and became the national security adviser. the play america first speech i think you could take the speech today to put in new places and names like to be just as relevant today as it was then because it lays out the country cannot blame itself and i will tell more about this but the whole idea we have to think about as a country where we don't want to have right or wrong we must have truth there has to be a standard of truth but we have to move toward having truth without judgment because if you look at our history we have a cycle of victims and oppressors and for those you have the same cycle and it

reverses. the way to think about possibly fixing that is to have truth not necessarily without judgment but an open mind that will be due to a more creative decision that is inclusive for everybody to settle the the abraham lincoln to think about that. my favorite selection is the inaugural and you can tell i am overweighted with lincoln and we had a bit of a discussion because i could not figure out what to cut i have his first inaugural inaugural, the "gettysburg address" coming "emancipation proclamation" but i cannot figure out if you really try to cover american history what do you leave out? i cannot figure out but if you look at the transition

and how he changes as a person from a very legalistic case of where we shouldn't go to war but probably will have to the first inaugural says i know it will end up at war. one to go to war i wish that we wouldn't but here is the legal outline of what will happen. if you look at that with the "gettysburg address" in the 287 words never using the word i lowered be our talks about himself to moves from the founding of our future is the unbelievable speech wherever it was he sat for two hours to not worry i am not speaking for two hours but as you can imagine he got up after the to our

oratory saying 287 words in less than two minutes so sure the photographer could not get a pitcher with those of the words that are remembered so that his heart wrenching especially since we're here in the capital but the first inaugural was half and finished and it was the scaffolding and at that time to continue with the construction and we would not fall. we would be here but the second inaugural it was all but assured the north would win. city council on a cloudy day like today overcast and the story goes he comes out as lincoln approaches the podium the clouds broke and

the sun shined by him and must of been incredibly moving but talking about a couple of things is where we need to move for our next generation. he talks about let us judge not and you can tell in this address he has become a man that truly understands in the hand of god. you can see it in his speeches, right thing, how faithful he has become but he talks about what does not be judged also with malice toward none and security for all as god gives us to see the right let's try to finish the work we are in. you may think what does this have to do with me? you are in business here, what does this have to

do with me? i am a writer, the mother, i do a lot of laundry and what does that have to do with us? a lot. we are a nation moving forward. as a nation that wants to reach out and include others and we don't want to leave nine judgment because that does not put us where we need to go. thinking of where we want our nation to be coming we have to think about a nation that to be voted on truth with a creative solution because part is saying what is to fall it does not make the truth go away but focus on the truth and create solutions first is looking at the past but let me tell you what you cannot fix the

past. it does not change there is nothing there for us. it is gone. that is what we are about then had we make it so attractive that we all work together? so if we do this, how we work hard enough to make that happen? talk about abraham lincoln talk about ronald reagan and and why his words are important and jfk and the statement asked not what you can do for you but what you can do for your country and are we doing what we should? the hardest is to be a good example.

i try to do that every day and failed by lunch but to understand what that means but to see how you ask them to do things and react to people around you and we all need to understand that every one of us has an incredible network had to redo that? learn every day. i tried to learn most days. i am better at learning but one of the things that we had to learn as women is what resonates? those to resonate with the majority of america, so we have lunch with louise last fall and he told the story

of the greatest violinist in the world and the response was the violinist to rex the note the fastest part of a listen to the tape and realize if you slow the tape down you could hear when the notes were off buy his hearing was so good he could correct it before that human played -- year got that he corrected as he played but we have to figure out if we don't have optimism and we need to rethink what we're

doing because in the end it has to be fabulous yen fantastic so we have to figure out to do that. because it will be a long process and in the and it is never over it might take a long time i am the worst that this i give us saturday with her to do less to the have mine and my husband's. he is the guy who gets up and i know we're together for a reason for god to make the patient and $0.1 to do things on occasion. [laughter] but it is good for me i am very focus to get too involved with the activity and he is there to say that is not what life is all about but also being with your family and having fun.

one of my favorite stories about my husband is we give our children grips and toast and eggs every morning i do that but on many occasions jimmy does some and we had a raging battle had the best aids and imagine the pressure on those kids. but i have to say he 14 quite a while but of course, i try to ask him what is with the eggs? he said you have to love the eggs. that means you have to pay attention to know what you're doing. that is code the matter what it is you have to love the calls, the press release come it does not matter but you have to love your eggs. of course, not any more.

the doctor's report we are off the dais for a while. [laughter] but we have to be true to who we are with the conservative movement and also with men listening to my mother talked about how she was the first math major is a world i don't understand because i have the undergraduate finance icahn do whatever it wanted but as women we have to figure out we have a choice is. we can do that to lowered this and every woman is different and could change during her life. i work in corporate finance 15 years running of big corporate group with $4 billion under me with two children now i am a writer. i can reinvent myself as you decide to have a different

party but in the end you have to be authentic which means i am the same today as i am cooking eggs former children and be clear about who you are about what you want to and understand no matter what you do in the end love all the eggs you are involved with. ladies, we have a big job in front of us. collectively but together we are up for the task to be truthful without judgment and be creative in solutions to all americans join the movement had understand that everyone can live the american dream for our like to thank you all for your time, a commitment and passion and for surveying our incredible parts of history and ever future

because we're the link of our great american story. thank you. may god bless you and america. [applause] we will take questions. >> what is your favorite speech in the book? >> the second inaugural address of abraham lincoln. it moves me to tears because you can tell how hard the war was that we believe in the same guide and read the same bible but this is where

we are as a nation and you can almost feel his heart breaking into but in the end he is very merciful thou judgment and once this to work together towards a bright future. >> with your interactions with people of liberal persuasion where it is coming ground you can connect with material in the book? am i that is a great question. we have is an american but not conservative but we have and will k and his speech is incredible and we need to look at people who reach out to others to include them as role models. jfk, fdr but the idea is to have americans stories.

all of those asked us to do more and let government solve your problems but that was not they're idea but how do we figure out together? and this is an idea of a to have a lot of opportunity. but over the publicly and it was made public for people and organizations better conservation minded being slammed publicly it has got 10 a bad rap. i love the environment we should be good stewards of the years but we have to figure out how to do it in such a way because of we have rules and regulations

we cannot control what the rest of the row thus we have to build and solutions that work, not just for us but we have to me very proactive with the argument. >> what is the best way to take and the speeches? i know when my eye as glaze over the words i do not absorb it did you listen to these on tabor read them aloud? what process do you use to absorber them? >> that is a great question in. i do have an introduction and for each one. why is it important when did it happen and what is the outcome and dwight is a resonate today? that helps. my husband and i did spend a friday night looking at the goldwater speech. i also