americans exceptional is an is rooted in something even more fundamental. 5 years ago newt gingrich and i'm a documentary film entitled rediscovering got it america. this film introduced the concept of american exceptional listen through a walking tour of washington from the national archives to arlington national cemetery. at the national archives the source of american exceptional is and is displayed in a single document, the declaration of independence. the key in this document is our founding fathers assertion that we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, and that we are endowed by our creator with inalienable rights, which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. it is this assertion that our rights come from god and makes

america truly exceptional. we are the only country in history to assert that each of us personally receives our rights from god, not from bureaucrats, politicians or judges but from god. this means that each of us is personally sovereign. this is why our constitution begins we the people. we the people lone power to the government. government never loans power to us. [applause] this unique endowment by our creator is why americans are citizens while other governments often treat their people as objects. in many countries the government and political bosses rain. here in america the people rain. because our founders understood that their freedom was based on

faith and no government could come between god and man. our form of government was grounded in rule of law. structured to recognize and protect the dignity, intelligence and value of every individual. these protections have allowed patriotism, individualism and a entrepreneurship to thrive in america as they have nowhere else on earth. because our founders rejected the notion that government had unlimited power over individuals, property rights were protected in the constitution to degree they had never been protected before. the founding fathers even wrote a patent office into the constitution to protect the intellectual property of investors giving american the ability and incentive to create, invent and realized a better future. there are number of americans

who personified the spirit of innovation and belief in progress. benjamin franklin invented the lightning rod and bifocal glasses. a few years later robert fulton invented the steamboat. samuel morse the telegram. reported that it mass-produced affordable automobile. and the right brothers discovered how to fly. all of these inventors illustrate the very best of the american experience. of hope, opportunity and on for part orship. they propose to be creative. to take risks and to follow their dreams without bothering to ask the government for money, permission or approval. in doing so, they changed the life of every person in this room who has occurred watch a movie or flown in an airplane.

they demonstrated that success is truly possible when a nation unleashes its god-given creativity. modern inventors like bill gates of microsoft and the late steve jobs of apple are part of this long tradition of creativity and innovation. our lives have been changed again and again by pioneers and inventors. for a moment, forget about history. forget about the existence of the declaration and the constitution. forget heroes like jefferson, franklin, martin luther king jr. and john f. kennedy who testified to america's uniqueness. forget the fact that we are all children of immigrants. among academic elites the claim that america is an exceptional nation is viewed with skepticism

and even sworn. they apologize for the ways in which america does not look like other nations. for such elites the word exceptional is an is criticism, not praise. a myth born of self righteous arrogance that has no place in of globalized multi-cultural society. nothing is more important to a conservative than believing in american exceptionism. as i became concerned about losing sight of what makes america and exceptional i decided to write a book for 4 to 8-year-olds in title sweet land of liberty. my goal was to highlight the wonderful achievements of our country. to arouse a love for america and communicate why america is a special nation. to do this i knew i needed a

unique character to capture the interest of young children, to guide them to the defining moment of our nation's history. i considered many animals including buddies, giraffes, hippos. i have to confess i didn't consider a balky. donkey. indy end i couldn't resist an adorable elephant, politics notwithstanding. when i began thinking of the name for our elephant, ellis came to mind. my grandmother came to the united states from poland to ellis island in 1907. therefore eyes off the less the elephant was perfect. symbolically we are a nation of elegant -- immigrants. in sweet land of liberty we first meet ellis at the library, an avid reader like my husband,

newt. he shares with the lens with others. ellis introduces children to the pilgrims's first thanksgiving, the boston tea party, george washington crossing the delaware and many other historic moments. it is my hope that these stories will help young people feel proud of our country and enable them to begin to appreciate the courage, service and sacrifice that has made this country and exceptional nation. today america stands at a pivotal moment. not only economically but socially, culturally and politically. it is important that each of us do our part now to advance and defend the pillars of freedom. our civilization is a learned civilization which means that anyone can learn to be an american. it also means that each

generation is capable of forgetting or failing to learn and recall what it is that makes america a special nation. pulitzer prize-winning historian michael kamen said, quote, a civilization without memory ceases to be civilized. a civilization without history ceases to have identity. without identity there is no purpose. without purpose, civilization will whether. when we know who we are as americans, the way forward to defending and advancing the cause of freedom becomes increasingly clear. it is my prayer that together we may work to insure that liberty and freedom prevail and america remains an exceptional nation. thank you and god bless. [applause]

[inaudible conversations >> good afternoon. let me tell you about the lieutenant governor for wisconsin. the rebecca clayton. throughout the last couple days i have listened to our panel's talked-about what we need to look for in a candidate. we in wisconsin were fortunate enough to find a candidate who reflect the almost everything that they mentioned in their panel discussions. but the neat thing about rebecca

is she is one of us. she is one of us as republican women. she is a conservative republican women and she has worked very hard to make certain that she has maintained those strong values through very difficult times the last year and a half. many of you know what is going on in wisconsin and she won't tell you this but i will. rebecca and scott walker are these days with recalls and i am appalled at the way the union thugs are operating in our state. there is one of thing that i don't want to see, and that is governor scott walker and governor rebecca playfish recalled because of standing for their principles as politicians. and so know that when she stands before you today she is faced with all of those emotions of

what they are trying to do not only to her but to her family in trying to bring harm to them either politically or personally. and so if you have any extra cash available that you might be willing to write out a check to help offset the millions of dollars that are coming into our state to recall who i think we to upcoming politicians in our party that stands for the principles that we all believe in, go to the gop website www. wisconsin.gop is the place you would go. on a more positive note you will just enjoy and get to know a

little bit about the midwest flavor that our wonderful lieutenant governor rebecca clayfish brings to the table is republican women supporting all of us in our endeavor as we take back america in 2012. with that, governor rebecca in clayfish. [applause] >> emotion of a recall? i don't know what soo is talking about. we are not emotional. i come from protest signs and bongo drums, every color and rejection of logic. i also come from the land of reform and reason, of enterprise and creativity. ladies and gentlemen, i come from scott walker's wisconsin.

[applause] like most of you here i am a mom and we will do just about anything in order to make sure our children's futures are brighter every day. some moms do that by teaching sunday school. others do that by volunteering and their kids's classrooms. i chose to set aside by a little business and run for lieutenant governor of the state of wisconsin. today i have the joy of knowing that what i have done this year and what i go out and do every day is making the difference for my children down the road. whether or like it or not also know that what i am doing every day is making the difference today as well. i tell you that because

yesterday as i was kissing my kids before they left for school by 8-year-old said mom, be a protest today, make sure you be nice and smiled. my children advise -- have become little experts on turning the other cheek. because wisconsin ups political climate is so politically charged right now even my children have become targets. even my children know that when they have one dollar they cannot spend two. something a kindergartner could understand, right? not so much. there are some in wisconsin who still don't understand that. so when i am asked to explain i say is the one we were sworn in, we had a big budget problem to

solve. the moment we dropped our hands from being inaugurated the governor and i were met with buckets of red ink on our desks. this year alone we had $137 million debt and we were left with a $3.6 billion deficit for our next biennial. so we had to ask our government to contribute a little bit. we ask for 5.8% pension contribution. we asked for of 12.6% health care contribution. that half the national average and we asked for some concessions in collective bargaining because we just couldn't afford it anymore. and our state like so many of yours was not given an opportunity to opt out of a recession. our taxpayers were in pain.

they elected us to do a budget without raising taxes because they simply could not afford continue to pay. in wisconsin the stimulus money was spent. health care costs had risen 90% since 2002. we had our own patient compensation fund that we owed them $200 million to. minnesota was knocking on our borders saying you oppose tax reciprocity agreements. we are not taking a cue ball on. and i think they were still kind of mad that brett favre gave up his good year. despite this the big union bosses and the out of state professional interests and paid protesters and even jesse jackson and michael more descended on the state capital in madison to defend the collective bargaining that made

sure that a volunteer crossing guard couldn't do his job because paid union employees should be doing that. one of our counties had a blizzard and all of the union workers were out hollings snow and when they brought in extra contractors to make sure the morning commute was clear the union filed a complaint. the snow should have just sat there, they said. they wanted to pay union workers to do it. we pay teachers for hours they didn't work. we gave people $4 for bringing their own lunches to work. we paid corrections officers to call in sick and then work the next shift, giving them over time and we fired the teacher of the year because she didn't have enough seniority. governor walker said enough is enough. we need to do in wisconsin the

same thing our small businesses and hard-working families who fund government do every day. something my kindergarteners and third grader understand. we need to and not spend more than what we have. and i will tell you, this year alone, we asked for those concessions. we made the changes to the expensive growing collective bargaining and we balance our budget. $3.6 billion deficit into a surplus in wisconsin. [applause] it was creating jobs at twice the national rate. we became the 49th stake in the nation to guarantee second amendment rights by making sure we had concealed carry. we opened with confidence for business. if you come to wisconsin and you want to vote now you have to

have a photo id in order to do it. [applause] but the thanks that was given to our brave legislators were threats, vandalism and recall election. six, our brave state senators face recall elections this past summer. and happily our majorities but the critics were not satisfied. and they were not deterred. three days ago groups filed recalls against the governor and myself and began collecting signatures. i respect their right to collect signatures. i respect their right to be angry. but if they get us on the

ballot, we will win. [applause] i am ready. our governor is ready. our governor is strong in wisconsin. i tell you that because i know scott walker. i'd met scott walker long ago when i was a journalist. scott was one of my best sources at the state capitol when he was a state assemblymen. he would before he became governor become the county executive in the largest county in the state of wisconsin. before it that would happen the democratic county executive would mess up big time. he was a crook of a guy and had to plan to make sure that he and his cronies were paid out millions upon their retirement and the journalist on camera was me. i like to argue that i was scott walker's first supporter for

county executive that day. but before the eyes of the world were focused on madison and governor scott walker the bongo drums, protest signs and responsible budgeting, we had to win the survey and the governor and lieutenant governor run in separate primaries. in my race it was me and four guys in an exhausting statewide campaign. i had more chicken dinners and gas station hot dogs than any human should really consumed. by midsummer i thought there is a chance i would start clucking or barking but instead i ended up with a really bad stomachache a. now that stomachache could have been because i came in dead last at the wisconsin state convention. could have been because of all but things i was doing, feeding

all the guys and moneymaking or could have been from something else. ends of the statewide campaign was the easy part. two weeks before my primary election i was diagnosed with a grapefruit sized tumor in mind that. at 35 years old in my first political race ever i was told you have:cancer. within days i was taken in for emergency surgery but i got off hours before the polls closed on primary election night. despite the naysayers and the cancer and the brutality of a five day race i beat all the guys by 22 points. [applause] i am happy to tell you today i am cancer free.

[applause] but i went through the low -- chemotherapy. my husband was watching out the capital window yesterday as they collected recall signatures against us. meantime i was in another part of the state more toward the center of wisconsin watching the white house christmas tree being harvested from wisconsin. the farmer told me that treat had been through a drought, punishing, flooding rain, it had seen a severe hail storm and even a tornado. but today it was the most beautiful and the strongest tree on the lot. kind of like wisconsin.

kind of like america. ladies, you have been called for a time such as this. you are the mothers and daughters and the sisters and wives who will fight to make this country all that it can be for our children. so thank you for the support of common sense and may god bless your effort to make our nation the exceptional one she has always deserved to be. thank you for having us. [applause] >> now it is my honor to introduce any that perry.

as first lady of texas for the past 11 years she has worked to promote a number of issues to benefit people from all walks of life. trained and educated as a nurse mrs. perry drew from her 17 years of nursing as a champion health-care issues such as breast cancer and childhood immunization. mrs. perry has been a strong advocate of economic development and tourism in texas leading trade missions to germany, japan, argentina, brazil and the czech republic to name a few. tourism brings fifty-six billion into the texas economy resulting in more than 500,000 jobs. please welcome anita perry. [applause]

>> thank you. great to be here in washington. the women working for change conference. with conservative women gathered together for a common cause, it doesn't threaten men the most. it threatens the liberals the most. when it comes to end politics as usual, conservative women are the real change. from the key haley to south carolina to susanna martina's in new mexico to mary fallon in oklahoma conservative women want office all across the country in 2010. i think sometimes it is worth asking the question why voters have gravitated to conservative women in recent years. and affirm their judgment and various life decisions women make from revving -- running the board room to running for office to running the household.

we are all about and powering women of all backgrounds rather than just putting us all in one little box. we remain sympathetic to the plight of middle-class families, of women who wear them in the hats of mother, wife, employee, we know that many women who toil to provide the best environment possible for raising our children we get our children ready for school, put in long hours at the office and then we make those pta meetings and soccer games and baseball games. who at the end of the they are too tired even to take their shoes off. we know those women because we are those women. many of us have done double duty without twice the pay. but we do it out of love and devotion to our families. as a texas woman said, liz

carpenter, roosters crow but hen's deliver. that may be the best democratic line i ever heard from a woman. a democratic woman. the issue facing our country is not gender based but job based. it is about giving our children a better country than the one we inherited. there are a lot of great candidates running for president. i happen to be partial towards one just a little bit and here is why. no one is more committed to the merit system that rick perry. he truly believes america's blindside to one background, gender or creed and provide the opportunity to any and all who work hard, play by the rules and never stopped dreaming. and he has provided a blueprint

to a more prosperous america in the state of texas where he has cut taxes 67 times, signed the first state budget that cuts state banned spending since world war ii and signed the most sweeping lawsuit reform in the nation including just this past spring a new loser's pay law. rick perry believes the best welfare program is a job. he believes the best economic stimulus occurs in the private sector and he believes the best hope for the world is a strong america. he served his country because he loves his country and during his tour of duty in the united states air force he developed a deep and abiding love for our nation's freedom. he recognizes what is wrong in

america is not that americans are lazy or soft or they lack imagination. it is washington that is broken. and he has put forward a bold plan to overhaul washington ending business as usual and insuring the government puts the american people first. he will fight to end lifetime appointees for future appointees to the federal bench because he doesn't believe those who legislate from the bench should be rewarded with a black robe for life. you wants to transform washington by creating a part-time congress, cutting their pay in half, their budget in half and airtime in washington in half. he believes the concept of the citizen legislature works best and keeps lawmakers better connected to the people. and finally he wants to overhaul

the permanent bureaucracy, eliminating the department of energy, education and commerce leaders to reducing and rebuilding the epa so that it no longer torments job creators and ending the passenger harassment of the t s a returning transportation security to the private sector. his bold plan for washington coupled with his 20% flat tax represent the most comprehensive change--it makes sense because he is the only candidate who is not part of the establishment. he is a true outsider who will bring a breath of fresh air to the belt way. with rick perry you don't have to wonder whether the president you get is similar to the candidate you see because he knows who he is and he knows what he believes. and larkin promise you this. if you will help elect him president he will make you

proud. and we will have the america again that you and i know for our children and our grandchildren. thank you for having me today. may god bless you all. thank you so much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> an unpaid nonpolitical announcement now. projectgopink is a totally volunteer organization and we

work on contributions to registration. if anyone would like to make a contribution just go to our web site, www. gopink.com. we are an information platform. we posed news articles, or original writing. if you would like to write for us, would you like to except -- we have a facebook page and we are on twitter. as i said earlier we are happy to work on something in your state, one day training session, amy conference like we had here and we will help organize to get your speakers. so we really look forward to working with you and it is my greatest honor to introduce someone who along my way in politics has helped me and she

has headed up one of the most effective groups in politics and for policy is marjorie dannenfelser of the fda list. marjorie has been -- all day today and yesterday we talked about an administration that is burdening our unborn and generations to come with bad policies and bad debts. marjorie has been on the forefront of leading the fight for the unborn so i would like to introduce her and i would like you to know that she is a great friend to have at all times and for this country. thank you. [applause] >> this is so fun. i am social work. can you see me? i think i need a boost.

it is truly great to be here. i have been looking forward to it. this is an exhaled time for me. i don't know -- i bet this time has been that for you too meaning we were called a time and sometimes our projects -- this does not work at all. it is like coming home. normally on the third friday of the month and have a large group of southern girls called bless your heart. d.c. political operatives -- we get together every week. we talk about a lot and a lot of things you have been talking about over these last few hours and days. one of these things is how grateful we are the leaders that i am and i bet you are for the heritage that we have. whether it comes from our region, certainly from america

as a nation, constitutional heritage with the examples that we have, women and men who have led us to this point in time. those examples and that heritage has brought us to where we are and i am so grateful for it. in such a diverse heritage. the midwest, westcoast, from a military family, the unique training that gives you to reach out to other people but the one thing that do know well and we do at our lunch which is called bless your heart because what else do we call ourselves? we have very often come down to a conversation where we get a few things straight. some superficial and some not so superficial but we were born knowing a few things and one is lipstick is always mandatory even if you're going to be 711 without question.

manners are not negotiable. everything your going to do from here on out. it is just a matter of being good to whether people and making sure that they know that they are welcome. good manners are not negotiable lipstick is vital. t has sugar. st. god men and women are different from more than physical reasons because i love men a lot. don't we all love men? but i don't want to be one ever. i am glad i was made a woman and everything that came along with it. all the gifts and all the things that came with being a woman. thank you for making us aware we are and not making us something we are not. most importantly, what i think brings all of us together burke absurdly women from the south, we have things that are our

birthright. i was not wearing lipstick as i was born but one thing i am sure of is we were raised -- we wouldn't be here if we were not raised and trained by our heritage, our history, our family has women to take responsibility for ourselves, our families and our community. with a watchful eye always for the most tolerable among us. sarah palin did a good job of explaining it along the way. she came to any event we have and talk about be a mama grisly and frontier feminist. i kind of like the mama grisly things that other people did. i like the idea of a mama grisly not because it goes after people and attack them but because a mama grizzly is a very gentle kind of bear. she marks out her territory, she

lives her life with her cubs within the territory she has marked out. everything that goes within that territory. if you are a predator, god help you if you walk within that perimeter and threatened jr. because it then you get your eyes scratched out. don't mess with our children. don't mess with the most vulnerable among us. that is a special gift that we as women are wired, people are wired that way for all sorts of reasons from god and from nature. we are wired that way. frontier feminism is another concept that is very compelling that all of -- susan b. anthony exemplified in some way and that is the idea that even in being very aggressive and moving across this country in wagon

trains and whatever form we took moving west, that we protect our families, and we made sure that the family life was preserved all along the way. there are examples of that. and bless their hearts if they had the arm and hammer moving out west. with a velvet hammer? i love you. don't mess with my kids or you will see the hammer coming. don't cross that line. we know who the vulnerable in our society is. we know who they are. they certainly start with the unborn and branches out from there. the best of us as women leaders across time have understood that the best. some of the women who blazed a trail of politics for all of us were the standard bearer for

just such a thing. they didn't always have to claim credit but they were profoundly intellectual and profoundly loving and profoundly nurturing and most of all courageous with their leadership. think of abigail adams who didn't leave home but her intellectual, spiritual and emotional support of her husband sustained him and what he had to do at a time crucial to the founding of our country. the underground railroad, women who lead that didn't look for credit but made sure the most vulnerable in our society were protected. susan b. anthony, our namesake, for more reasons than one understood. was an abolitionist and suffragist who blazed the trail and never stopped. he was relentless. he never -- she knew she had to fight which is a lesson to us all. she understood something central

to all the women i have just mentioned and that is you can never build authentic rights on the broken rights of other human beings. you can never built authentic human rights on the broken rights of another human being. that is our sense of protecting the vulnerable. the cuban trade that is uniquely strong woman trade. a mother break. something we uniquely bring to the political process that must be heard. it is being heard more and more. susan b. anthony said about the connection between women and unborn child in a newspaper called the revolution, she said in a question asking should a woman feel guilty if she does away with her unborn child she said guilty, yes. no matter what the motive whether love for a desire to

save the unborn innocent from pain, she is deeply guilty. it will burden her conscious in life. it will burden her soul in the grave. but guilty is the one who drove her to the dreadful deed. who is driving women now to the dreadful deed? women and folks who are looking for money, a money cash out from women's pain. to drive her -- 4,000 times a day. elizabeth cady stanton said when we consider women treated as property is degrading to women when we treat children as property to be disposed of as we see fit. neighboring for half -- navy brinkerhalf said something that

i am not able -- here it is. when a man steals to satisfy his under, we may faithfully conclude there's something wrong in society. when a woman destroys the life of her unborn child it is evidence either by education or circumstances she has been greatly wronged. what they are all saying as many things but one thing they are all saying is that a dearth of rights, poverty of rights, feeling exhortation and derivation can never solve by taking a rights away from another jim and being whether it is the vulnerable unborn or vulnerable--the margaret sanger decided to eradicate replant parenthood, weathered as a minority that is not respecting the community, we will never build power rights up by tearing their rights of those people down. in fact we know what love does.

love increases. as we give rights as we expand rights, more rights flourish. it is the nature of the blessing of liberty that our country has given us. to understand that that is actually true and that is the model we are supposed to follow. a funny thing happened on the way along. we had such great female models. we didn't agree with them on everything. we don't have to. do women never disagree? everyone's in a while. a couple times. at least in my family. a funny thing happened. my mother always calls -- the 60s business somehow got into the brain that hearts and minds of a group of women who felt exploitation and bias and maybe something authentic but they literally threw the baby out

with the bath water. interlopers between our true founders -- we don't have to call it feminism if you don't want to. the truth founders of what it means to be a woman leader and where we are now. they interlopers in the meantime to say several things. there were people like margaret sanger. people who -- women who made the world work in the words of my good friend kato burn erodible by that title. women who made the world work. they made the world work, why did they make country and families and communities work? because they made us focus on a list of grievances. instead of a list of how we contribute to ourselves and family and community and the nation. being a woman involved in politics there are things we must have or we will pound you. take from them, give to us. we won't be happy. of you don't give it to us you

are dead. where is the expansiveness, the generosity? who would want to be like that? my mother was not -- she knew what she didn't like a lady and i remember -- i bet you did too seeing jane fonda and others, looking at some of the women on the national stage in the 70s and 80s a who would want to be that? who would want to act like that? they are mad all the time. i didn't want that. it was something that was repellent. somehow they convinced a lot of people especially men in power that to get the women's vote you had to prove you would liberate them. liberated women means you must buy into the sexual exploitation of women. you must buy into what makes

everything second of the day, abortion. you would buy into these demands or you were not real man and if you run for office and the degree to these demands you are now real woman. in fact it was a wedge in the feminist movement at the time. there was a group of women who have poured abortion in the 70s that you don't hear from now. the split came because the money came from the abortion movement. but the vast majority and the leaders in that movement also believed pornography and prostitution were exploiting women and making them consumer goods like elizabeth cady stanton referred to. making them commodities. take that off the shelf and put back in. that group was marginalized. there was no money for them. only for the abortion movement which became the center of the movement. do you see any connection

between what we're suffering every day and every city that didn't get addressed and is still living in our? of the group that was marginalized was the group that did not want women to be traffic as consumer goods put back on the shelf to be put back out as prostitutes and the victims of pornography again and again and again. i am reading every day the consequences of that split in the movement where women didn't stand up at that point or the women that did stand-up and said do not treat our girls and women like this got marginalized because where does the money come from? hugh hefner. the money came from the pornographers. the money came from the people that were supporting prostitution at a time when people didn't see a problem with it. we feel the pain and the fallout from that but they didn't see it then.

what we got instead was not a philosophy of you don't build rights on the backs of other human beings whose rights you have broken. we said you men, you kids, you are obstacles to my success. what do we do to help you step aside so that i can march through. that tended to be -- what happened to ourselves and our families and communities? what we give to those things actually produces in our communities? the response in political terms has been the founding of the susan b. anthony listed nearly 90s where we still -- there is not a remnant -- when that philosophy was front and center. since that time we have altogether worked for a time

when the year of a woman in 1992 which was only the barbara boxers and the glorious -- nancy pelosis of the world were the victors to last year which is the year of the pro-life woman. very rare now to find an authentic woman leader who has been a viable. who in this last election didn't get elected. was their day, their time. in combination with other factors. the year of the pro-life woman was last year and going from close to zero, women leaders' like you to the type of woman that is now prevailing in public office. in governor's raises you were very involved in.

attorney-general's raises, not even to mention the enormous number of raises i am sure you were involved in that we could stretch to to reach. this is the tied and thank god you were here to give voice to what was happening. i really believe down to my bones, it has to do with that trade off about who we are and how we see ourselves as complementary to men and always with an eye out for the vulnerable among us. the mama grisly thing is too aggressive but we will protect our families always and we will always -- think of any corporate atmosphere where you understand or and an office atmosphere where you understand someone is

suffering. you naturally reach out. this is the political process and what politics in general will benefit greatly from. regardless of the velvet hammer which it has to be, what is the velvet hammer? we are who we are in terms of everything i said. you cross that line we will be the mama grisly. you pretend to authenticate real human rights and you don't. to look for jobs in the private sector. there are women who speak to us and women who don't speak for us. we together will have the muscle to make sure that they know who they are and who they are not. in the process of doing that which we have already done we will encourage women like everyone in this room to run and do exactly what we said because no logger will they see it as beneficial and to buy into this idea that to be a real woman you

have to buy in to old-guard feminism which sees other people as obstacles to their success. what i am not going to do is go for a bunch of polls but what you probably already know, at least on the abortion issue we are so -- we are not even at the crest yet. because of what we have known about what abortion has done to hollow out the soul and body of women and we have gone through years of experience about what that means and we watched it, polls are dramatically moving in our direction, and when. more women labeled themselves pro-life than pro-choice. that is just a label which means not a lot unless you fill it out. in the early 90s 50% of college-educated women were basically for abortion on demand. now 35% of college age women are for abortion on demand and

overall women generally are for abortion on demand. 26%. a quarter of women mainly in over 40 are for abortion on demand compared with 34% in the early 90s. everything is moving in our direction. in the 70% or 80% category in terms of the polling which we know to be true which we would fa for even if we are not on the positive side of this. 78% of women support late term abortion. bands. oppose funding for abortion. undermining our consciences with our tax dollars. in some asian i would just like to sort of continue the conversation you probably already have been involved in and that is you have already

made a decision to be engaged in the political process but we all will go back and try to make sure that other women make a very good decision about being involved in the political process and it is a decision. it is not fun. who really wants to do it? it is kind of dirty and not all that fun. we are not all superconfrontational but we do it because we love and no other compelling reason to get involved and that will sustain us all in the tough times. tina fay -- i hope you met lindsay matlock who turned me on to this book. we may not agree with tina fay on a lot of things but she did say in her new book when people say you really must do something it means you really don't have to. no one ever said you really must

deliver the baby during labor. because -- when it is true it doesn't need to be said. we really don't have to sacrifice all the things you have sacrificed. we don't have to. it is the decision. it is like the decision that we who are natural beneficiaries of whose roots we are returning to now. skipping over that 60s business in the meantime. we will do what they did. if we dig down and recruit other women like ourselves to see yourself either as a candidate yourself. let me just say this. not everyone is a candidate. i will never be a candidate. never. but i will always find the best candidates to support. i see it as a vocational question that has to be asked. not everyone should do it but if

you are, do it whole hog. if you run the first time doesn't mean you were not called to do it. it means there's something else you need to do in addition to run again or run for a different office. there are things that need to be adjusted but it is a calling. i believe in this time especially with women running for public office because it is a sacrifice from our families and our communities it is a vocation. what is that vocation about? retaking ground so that we can stay for ourselves and the majority and returned to our roots and we start to promote -- start to promote -- continue to promote the antithesis of what barbara boxer who has peaked out nationally. maybe not in california but certainly nationally. we continue to promote what we know is the message among women.

barbara boxer woke up one morning and decided to run for school board. she hadn't decided to do that and the door didn't open after that we wouldn't be burdened with barbara boxer right now. marilyn moss grave did the same thing. don black did the same thing. women who are speaking for ourselves made that same decision. kelly ayat 5 planned parenthood vociferously and did the same thing. we have everything we need and that is where i will close. we do have everything we need in this country. other countries we don't. we have the blessing of liberty. we have the inspiration and the model and we have the true gift that women like you have been given when you embrace them and share them in the political